Elie Wiesel

Romanian-American Jewish author and Holocaust survivor whose memoir Night is one of the most powerful testimonies of the Holocaust and whose subsequent career was dedicated to human rights advocacy.

Night: the most widely read Holocaust memoir — the destruction of faith, family, and humanity in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Testimony as ethical obligation: Wiesel argued that silence in the face of atrocity is complicity — the survivor has an obligation to bear witness. Nobel Peace Prize (1986).