Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race… - Elie Wiesel

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Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must at that moment become the center of the universe.

Elie Wiesel

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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (30 September 1928 – 2 July 2016) was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books (mostly written in French and English), including Night, a work based on his experience incarcerated in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

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Alternative Names: Eliezer Wiesel • A-7713 • Élie Wiesel

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