He dedicated his entire life to writing and speaking about the horrors of the Holocaust, with the firm intention of preventing similar barbarism from being repeated in the world.
At the age of 14 he was arrested by the Germans, like the other Jews of his town, when the Nazi Ferenc Szálasi took power by force by overthrowing the Hungarian regent Miklós Horthy. He survived the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, being liberated by Allied forces on April 11, 1945. His father Shlomo, his mother Sarah and his younger sister Judith “Tzipora” they perished; However, his two older sisters Hilda and Beatrice managed to stay alive. He studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris, and later worked in newspapers in Israel, France and the United States, where he settled in 1956 and in 1963 obtained nationality. American after being stateless for decades.
Author of three novels about his experiences during those years of repression and death (The night, Dawn y The day, published in Spanish under the title of night trilogy), won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
On May 16, 1944, the Wiesel family, like many other Jewish families, boarded a train headed to the Birkenau extermination camp. “It's the first stop, then come Auschwitz and Buchenwald. It is closed night, outer darkness into which, along with so many murdered or surviving Jews, our cores of humanity, our source of deep compassion, are thrown.” The night (1956-1958) was the title that brought Wiesel the most fame.
Elie Wiesel died on July 2, 2016 at age 87, in Manhattan, New York.
Source: Wikipedia
What a sad and harsh reality, what the Jewish people have experienced since their beginnings, from the biblical Exodus, to the Holocaust. And what is currently happening. Thanks to YHWH this will soon end forever, it is a Biblical fact. Courage Israel, it won't be long until we live it. Blessed be Israel.
Without words to express my feelings…………………….