Barack Obama was among several world leaders to pay tribute to Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, Nobel Laureate, and author who died Saturday at the age of 87. “Elie Wiesel was a great moral ...

Elie Wiesel was 15-years old when he and his family were sent to the Nazi concentration camps AFP/Getty. After the war Mr Wiesel lived in a French orphanage.

Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, ... Born in Romania, Wiesel was 15 when he was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland with his family in 1944.

Wiesel was only 15 years old when he and his entire family were sent to Auschwitz during the Holocaust, which took the lives of more than six million Jews. Related Stories Related Story ...

Elie Wiesel. A Holocaust survivor, Nobel Laureate, ... Born in the Transylvanian town of Sighet, Mr. Wiesel was 15 years old when he and his family were deported to Auschwitz.

The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity — established with his Nobel Prize money — announced in 2008 that it had lost more than $15 million through investments with Wall Street financier ...

Elisha Wiesel visited the ruins of the Auschwitz with his father, Elie — the humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize winner and world’s most recognizable Holocaust survivor — only once, in 1995.

Mr. Wiesel was 15 years old, a new arrival to Block 17 at Auschwitz after being swept up in the last transport from the Sighet ghetto, when the number A-7713 was tattooed on his left arm.

The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity lost $15.2 million to Bernard Madoff’s alleged investment fraud, according to a statement posted on the foundation’s website Wednesday. The foundation, which ...

Today, only a few dozen Jews live in Sighet, Romania, a small town on the southern bank of the Tisza River, which separates Romania from Ukraine to the north. But this was not always so. In 1944, ...

The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, ... Wiesel said he ended up losing $15.2 million in foundation funds, plus his and his wife's own personal investments.