Other editions of book Elie Wiesel: Spokesman for Remembrance

Elie Wisel's journey led him from the childhood in the Romania/Hungarian countryside to achievements on the world stage, where he became a renowned author and teacher, Nobel prize winner, and chairman of the presidential body that planned the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Before being freed from Buchenwald in 1945, Elie suffered in the concentration camps of Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buna.

A survivor of one of modern historys most horrific events, Elie Wiesel has spent his life ensuring that the world never forgets the Holocaust. Sent to Auschwitz during World War II, young Elie was forced to live in profoundly inhumane conditions ruled by terrifying guards. Eventually liberated, Wiesel never shook the injustice of what happened to his family and 6 million other Jews. His training as a journalist enabled him to write the seminal book Night, a memoir of his experience at Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Elie Wiesel traces the remarkable life of a tireless advocate for human rights.