| Elie Wiesel  AKA Eliezer Wiesel
Born: 30-Sep-1928
Birthplace: Sighet, Romania
Died: 2-Jul-2016
Location of death: Manhattan, NY
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Sharon Gardens Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Activist, Novelist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Anti-Holocaust and human-rights activist Father: Shlomo (d. 1945 Buchenwald)
Mother: Sarah (d. Auschwitz)
Sister: (d. Auschwitz)
Wife: Marion Erster Rose (m. 1969, one son)
Son: Elisha Wiesel
Professor: City University of New York (1972-76)
Professor: Boston University (1976-)
Scholar: Yale University (1982-83)
US Holocaust Memorial Museum Council Chairman (1980-86)
Nazi Concentration Camp Inmate
Academy of Achievement 1996
America-Israel Friendship League US National Advisory Board
AmeriCares Advisory Committee
Citizens for a Moratorium on Federal Executions
Committee on the Present Danger
Hague Appeal for Peace Honorary Committee
International Rescue Committee Overseer
Cosmos Club Award 2006
Nobel Peace Prize 1986
Prix Médicis 1968 for Le Mendiant de Jérusalem
Guardian of Zion Award 1997
French Legion of Honor
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Left at Orphanage (1945-48)
Tonsillectomy
Visited Disneyland 1957
Naturalized US Citizen 1963
Traveled to the USSR 21-Oct-1986
Funeral: Tom Lantos (2008)
Hungarian Ancestry
Author of books:
Memoirs: All Rivers Run to the Sea (1995)
And the Sea is Never Full: Memoirs 1969- (2000)
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