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| Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor, dies at 87 | Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor, dies at 87 |
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| Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and author of the best-selling memoir "Night" about being a teenager in Auschwitz and Buchenwald Concentration Camps, has passed away at age 87. | |
| “Yad Vashem mourns the passing of Elie Wiesel-Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate, renowned author,” the research center said in a statement Saturday. | “Yad Vashem mourns the passing of Elie Wiesel-Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate, renowned author,” the research center said in a statement Saturday. |
| He died at his home in Manhattan. | He died at his home in Manhattan. |
| Wiesel, a Romanian-born writer, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. | Wiesel, a Romanian-born writer, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. |
| Author of more than 40 books, Night sold 10 million copies after initially turned down by a dozen publishers. Three million were sold after spending 80 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list when Oprah Winfrey featured it for her book club and dozens of translations continue to be taught in schools around the world. | |
| At the age of 15, Wiesel, his parents, and three sisters were taken from the small town of Sighet, Romania, to Auschwitz, where his younger sister and mother were immediately sent to gas chambers. | |
| His father was beaten to death by an SS officer after the rest of the family was forced to march to Buchenwald, just days before US soldiers liberated the death camp. | |
| After he and two of his sisters survived, he moved to France to study literature, philosophy, and psycholog before developing an interest in journalism and becoming an author. | |
| Wiesel was a humanities professor at Boston University, taught Judaic Studies at City University of New York, and served as a visiting scholar at Yale University. | |
| In 2007, Wiesel was beaten by 22-year-old Holocaust denier Eric Hunt in San Francisco. | |
| He was also a victim of Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, who wiped out the Wiesel family investments. Madoff's Ponzi scheme also wiped out Wiesel's family investments. | |
| Nearly one-third of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity's $15 million assets have been replaced through new contributions, according to tax documents obtained by AP. |