In 1978, he was chosen by President Carter to head the President's Commission on the Holocaust, and plan an American memorial museum to Holocaust victims. Wiesel's book was among the first popular accounts written by a witness to the very worst, and it documented what Frank could hardly have imagined. Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor whose classic "Night" became a landmark testament to the Nazis' crimes and launched Wiesel's long career as one of the world's foremost witnesses and humanitarians, has died at age 87. Six years later, he married Marion Rose, a fellow Holocaust survivor who translated some of his books into English. The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, which he established in 1988, explored the problems of hatred and ethnic conflicts around the world.

Source: ABC News July 02, 2016 20:36 UTC