Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner, survivor of the Holocaust, died in Boston

At the age of 87 years in Boston (USA) American, French and Jewish writer, journalist, public figure, Nobel Peace Prize winner (1986 year) Elie Wiesel died.

Elie Wiesel was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Gold Medal of the US Congress, the Presidential Medal in Israel, the Order of the Legion of Honor of France, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary, the Medici Prize, the Theodor Herzl Prize of the World Jewish Congress, and the graduation ceremony. a citizen of Jerusalem.

He taught at America’s most prestigious universities and was an Honorary Doctor of Boston and Yale Universities.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his condolences over the death of the pursuer of Nazi criminals, who miraculously escaped in the Holocaust, writes The Jerusalem Post.

“He gave us all a sense of the triumph of the human spirit over cruelty and evil through his extraordinary personality and fascinating books. In the darkness of the Holocaust, in which six million of our brothers and sisters were killed, Elie Wiesel served as a beacon of light and an example of a person who believed in goodness and in people,” Netanyahu said. In 2014, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to convince the writer to run for the presidency of Israel, but he refused.

Former Israeli President Shimon Peres also expressed condolences, calling the writer's death “a great loss for the Jewish people and for the whole world.”

Wiesel was born in Romania to a religious Jewish family in 1928.

His most famous novel, Night, is based on personal memories of his experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp, where the writer ended up as a teenager. During World War II, Wiesel was a prisoner of the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald, where he lost loved ones.

After receiving the Nobel Peace Prize (1986 year), he established the Humanitarian Foundation, fighting indifference, intolerance and injustice. In December, 2008, the Elie Wiesel Foundation officially announced that almost all of its assets (about 15 million dollars) were lost as a result of the machinations of Bernard Madoff. Wiesel himself also lost a significant portion of his personal savings.

1 February 2007, the 22 year-old Holocaust denier Eric Hunt, posing as a journalist, tried to kidnap Wiesel during the "Conference on the Limitation of Violence in the World" in Boston. A few weeks later, New Jersey police arrested Hunt, who fled the scene. Wiesel claimed that he had previously received threats from Holocaust deniers..

Wiesel wrote 47 books about Nazism in Yiddish, Hebrew, French and English, and devoted his life to finding and putting former sadists and murderers to justice.

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