In Night, Wiesel wrote of his shame at lying silently in his bunk while his father was beaten nearby. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the following year was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the Second World War death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming the lifelong voice of millions of Holocaust victims, has died, Israel's Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem said on Saturday. Wiesel did not waver in his campaign never to let the world forget the Holocaust horror. Wiesel wrote more than 50 books — novels, non-fiction, memoirs and many with a Holocaust theme — and held a long-running professorship at Boston University.

Source: CBC News July 02, 2016 20:01 UTC