Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was a Romanian-born American writer and Holocaust survivor whose memoir Night recounts his imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps.

Night: Elie Wiesel’s memoir recounts his deportation from Sighet and imprisonment at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This memoir made Wiesel’s camp experiences known to generations of readers.
Sighet: A city in present-day Romania, historically home to a large Jewish community and Elie Wiesel’s childhood home. Wiesel’s family and early life were rooted in Sighet before deportation.
François Mauriac: A French Catholic novelist and essayist awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature. Mauriac encouraged Wiesel to write openly about his Holocaust experience.
Nobel Peace Prize: An annual international award recognizing work for peace, established by Alfred Nobel’s will. Wiesel received the 1986 prize for his advocacy on behalf of oppressed people.
Dawn: Elie Wiesel’s 1961 novel follows a Jewish resistance fighter in British Mandate Palestine after World War II. Its fictional struggle with violence extends themes raised by Wiesel’s Holocaust testimony.
Kingdom of Romania: A state that existed from 1881 to 1947, encompassing much of present-day Romania. Wiesel was born in a region governed by Romania during his childhood.
Marion Wiesel: An Austrian-born translator and humanitarian who translated several of Elie Wiesel’s works into English. Her translations helped bring Wiesel’s writing to English-language audiences.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: A national museum in Washington, D.C., documenting the Holocaust and honoring its victims and survivors. Wiesel chaired the commission that recommended creating the museum.
The Accident: Elie Wiesel’s novel, first published in French as Le Jour, concerns a writer confronting mortality after a car accident. The novel shows Wiesel developing beyond direct Holocaust memoir.
Hungary during World War II: The wartime Hungarian state allied with the Axis and occupied northern Transylvania from 1940. Sighet came under Hungarian rule before its Jewish population was deported in 1944.

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