In "Night" Wiesel wrote of his shame at lying silently in his bunk while his father was beaten nearby. After the war Wiesel made his way to France, studied at the Sorbonne and by 19 had become a journalist. Wiesel did not waver in his campaign never to let the world forget the Holocaust horror. In awarding the Peace Prize in 1986, the Nobel Committee praised him Elie Wiesel as a 'messenger to mankind'Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the World War Two death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming the life-long voice of millions of Holocaust victims, died on Saturday. "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed ...," Wiesel wrote.

Source: dna July 03, 2016 02:48 UTC