It is not always events that have touched us personally that affect us the most. - Elie Wiesel

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It is not always events that have touched us personally that affect us the most.

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About Elie Wiesel

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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