1. Elie Wiesel By: Jessica Vazquez

2. Childhood real name is Eliezer grew up speaking Yiddish at home and Hungarian, Romanian, and German outside of home was an Orthodox Jew born in Sighet, Transylvania (now Romania) born on Sept. 30, 1928 parents were grocery store owners (Shlomo and Sarah) 3 sisters (2 older- Hilda and Bea) and (1 younger- Tsiporah)

3. Childhood (cont) attended Jewish school at age 3 (learned Hebrew, Bible, and Talmud) ideas were influenced by maternal grandfather who was prominent Hasid spent a lot of time with Moshe (was a caretaker of synagogue and taught him of Messiah and Judaism mysteries) 1942 had his bar mitzvah studied Bible and Jewish books attracted Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) learned about astrology, parapsychology, hypnotism, and magic to further his studies deported in 1944

4. As a Prisoner forced to get on cattle car with 80 other people after 4 days, train stopped at Auschwitz dad and Elie were sent to be slave laborers and mom and younger sister were sent to gas chamber was known as A-7713 tortured and beaten at different camps such as (Buna and Gleiwitz) winter right knee swelled up and was operated by doctor at camp two days later him and other prisoners were forced by SS to do a death march (included 10 days of running) then they were sent on a train to Buchenwald (6,000 out of 20,000 made it there) stayed with his father until his death on June 29 (when he died of dysentery, starvation, exposure, and exhaustion) April 1945- liberated by United States Third Army

5. After the War learned mom and younger sister died in gas chambers and two older sisters survived lived in French orphanage for a few years tried to immigrate to Palestine but couldn't 1947- saw sister (Bea) in newspaper and was reunited with her in Antwerp 1948- began to study at Sorbonne in Paris (literature, philosophy, and psychology) was a journalist for French newspaper (L'Arche) and Israeli newspaper (Yediot Ahronot) vowed never to write about the Holocaust but changed his mind when he met French Catholic novelist (Francois Mauriac) in 1955 wrote "And The World Remained Silent" in Yiddish (900 pgs) after 2 years, it was compressed into 127 pg French version "La Nuit" (Night) 1955- moved to New York 1956- was hit by taxicab in New York and was put in a wheelchair for almost a year after recovery, continued to live in New York as a writer for Jewish Daily Forward wrote 35 works in France (Judaism and Holocaust realated) wrote novels (L'Aube- Dawn, Le Jour- The Accident) traveled around the world as a journalist 1965- traveled to USSR and described situation in "The Jews of Silence" lectured at colleges 1969- married Marion Erster Rose from Austria 1972- son Shlomo Elisha was born

6. Awards Andrew Melon Professor of Humanities of Boston University since 1976 1965- Rememeberance Award 1966- Jewish Heritage Award for Excellence in Literature 1969- France's Prix Medicis 1972-Prix Bordin from French Academy 1972- Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Award 1973- Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award from Jewish Book Council 1978- was appointed Chairman of United States Holocaust Memorial Council by Jimmy Carter 1980- Prix Livre International 1980- Jabotinsky Metal from State of Israel 1981- Prix des Bibliothecaries 1985- Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement by Ronald Reagan 1985- International League for Human Rights Humanitarian Award 1986- Nobel Prize for Peace 1987- Courage Award from B'nai B'rith 1988- Human Rights Law from the International Humans Right Law Group 1989- Human Rights Campaign Fund Humanitarian Award 1991- Award of Highest Honor from Soka University 1991- Ellis Island Medal of Honor 1994- Golden Slipper Humanitarian Award