| 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 M�dicis 1968 for Le Mendiant de J�rusalem
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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