Elie Wiesel was a survivor of Auschwitz and human rights activist who devoted his life to educating the world about the Holocaust. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Browse a timeline of key events in the world and in Wiesel's life from 1928–1951.

Elie Wiesel (right) with his wife and son during the Faith in Humankind conference, held several years before the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Auschwitz fence posts and Elie Wiesel quote on display at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Elie Wiesel was a survivor of Auschwitz and human rights activist who devoted his life to educating the world about the Holocaust. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Browse a timeline of key events in the world and in Wiesel's life from 1952 until his death in 2016.

Elie Wiesel was a human rights activist, author, and teacher who reflected on his experience during the Holocaust in more than 40 books. Learn more.

Elie Wiesel (right) with his wife and son during the Faith in Humankind conference, held several years before the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. September 18–19, 1984, in Washington, DC.

Elie Wiesel (right) with his wife and son during the Faith in Humankind conference, held several years before the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Elie Wiesel: Sudan has become today’s world capital of human pain, suffering and agony. There, one part of the population has been – and still is – subjected by another part, the dominating part, to humiliation, hunger and death. For a while, the so-called civilized world knew about it and preferred to look away. Now people know.

Elie Wiesel was a human rights activist, author, and teacher who reflected on his experience during the Holocaust in more than 40 books. Learn more.

Elie Wiesel wurde im Mai 1944 zusammen mit seiner Familie nach Auschwitz deportiert. Als Zwangsarbeiter war er in den Konzentrationslagern Monowitz und Buchenwald inhaftiert.