| Elie Wiesel  AKA Eliezer Wiesel
Born: 30-Sep-1928
Birthplace: Sighet, Romania
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 U.S. National Advisory Board
AmeriCares Advisory Committee
Citizens for a Moratorium on Federal Executions
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
Tonsillectomy
Naturalized US Citizen 1963
Funeral: Tom Lantos (2008)
Hungarian Ancestry
Author of books:
Memoirs: All Rivers Run to the Sea (1995, memoir)
And the Sea is Never Full: Memoirs 1969- (2000, memoir)
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