Elie+Wiesel+Biography

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ELIE WIESEL  · Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, which is now part of Romania. He was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz.   · Elie and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, where his father died shortly before the camp was liberated in April 1945.  · After the war, Elie Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist.  · Night, which has since been translated into more than thirty languages.  · In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed Elie Wiesel as Chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust.  · Elie Wiesel has received more than 100 honorary degrees from institutions of higher learning. 