Enduring the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, or even just contemplating them, destroyed religious belief for many Jews. “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever,” ...

Elie Wiesel, who made Holocaust education his mission in life after who after surviving the Auschwitz and Buchenwald death camps, died Saturday, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

As the world mourns the loss of Elie Wiesel, a local man is remembering his life. Moses Altsech said he met Wiesel in Boston in 2007. A picture of them shaking hands hangs in his home in Middleton.

There is no reason in the world why death should be imposed by people of good will, of intelligence, of kindness – people in ...

The Scrapbook was on vacation when Elie Wiesel passed away, and we would be remiss if we failed to say something. Wiesel died at the age of 87, and as a Holocaust survivor, he knew more than anyone ...

More than 800 people packed the George Sherman Union’s Metcalf Hall Monday night to hear Boston University professor Elie Wiesel’s third and final installment to his annual lecture series, “The ...

A fellow survivor, she was a literary and political adviser who helped her husband gain recognition as a singular moral authority on the Holocaust. By Alex Traub His art included cartoons for The New ...

The U.S. Postal Service honors Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) with the 18th stamp of its Distinguished Americans series. Wiesel was a survivor of Nazi concentration camps whose life and writing on the ...

Elie Wiesel was a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Holocaust survivor and author -- but he is perhaps best known for giving a voice to the voiceless. He died Saturday at 87. After surviving the Auschwitz ...

Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 as a "messenger for mankind." He and his wife, Marion, established the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity with the prize money. Ethel Kessler, an art ...

, (Reuters) - As a survivor of the Nazi death camps, Elie Wiesel saw mankind at its worst. He wrote about it in some 50 books, starting with the powerful "Night," and made it his life's mission to ...