Elie WieselAn intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize As an orphaned survivor and witness to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (19282016) became a torchbearer for victims and survivors of the Holocaust at a time when the world preferred to forget. How did this frail, soft spoken man from a small village in the Carpathians become such an influential presence on the world stage? Using Wiesels writings