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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor who fought for peace, human rights and simple human decency, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87. Born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Maramureș, Romania, Wiesel was a Jewish writer, professor...

Werner Reich is a Holocaust survivor. At age 17, he and 88 others were selected from a group of 6,000 Birkenau prisoners and turned over to the notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele for medical experimentation. He considers himself one of the lucky ones...

Elie Wiesel was a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, a powerful and gifted author and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, lauded for his work in opening up a dialogue about the horrors of the Holocaust. His autobiography, Night, which...

David Shankbone/Wikimedia 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. He was 87. Wiesel was a philosopher, speaker...

Wiesel was attacked in a San Francisco hotel in 2007 by a 22-year-old Holocaust denier, but not injured. 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...