Elie Wiesel 10518 225124629 2008-07-12T00:23:47Z 64.131.38.7 /* Early life */ removed one sentence that was included twice in the same paragraph about Elie's three sisters {{Infobox Writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox Writer/doc]] --> |name=Elie Wiesel {{click|image=Nobel medal dsc06171.jpg|link=Nobel Prize in Literature|width=20px|height=20px}} |awards=[[Nobel Peace Prize]], [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]], [[Congressional Gold Medal]] |image=Elie Wiesel.jpg |caption=Wiesel speaking at the [[World Economic Forum]] Annual Meeting in 2003 |birthdate={{birth date and age|1928|09|30}} |birthplace=[[Sighetul Marmatiei|Sighet]], [[Maramures County|Maramureş County]], [[Romania]] |occupation=Political activist, professor, novelist }} '''Elie Wiesel''' (born '''Eliezer Wiesel''' on [[September 30]], [[1928]])<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9076939/Elie-Wiesel Elie Wiesel from Encyclopædia Britannica]</ref> is a [[Jewish]] writer, professor, political activist, [[Nobel Laureate]] and [[Holocaust]] survivor. He is the author of over 40 books, the best known of which is ''[[Night (book)|Night]]'', a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps. Wiesel was awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1986. The [[Norwegian Nobel Committee]] called him a "messenger to mankind," noting that through his struggle to come to terms with "his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in [[Hitler]]'s death camps," as well as his "practical work in the cause of peace," Wiesel has delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity.<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1986/press.html 1986 Nobel Peace Prize Press Release]</ref> ==Early life== Wiesel was born in Sighet, (now [[Sighetu Marmaţiei]]), [[Maramureş County|Maramureş]], [[Kingdom of Romania]], to Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel. Sarah was the daughter of Dodye Feig, a [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasid]] and farmer from a nearby village. Shlomo was an [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jew]] of [[Hungary|Hungarian]] descent, and a shopkeeper who ran his own grocery store. He was active and trusted within the community, and had spent a few months in jail for having helped [[History of the Jews in Poland|Polish Jews]] who escaped, and was hungry in the early years of his life. It was Shlomo who instilled a strong sense of [[humanism]] in his son, encouraging him to learn [[Hebrew language|Modern Hebrew]] and to read literature, whereas his mother encouraged him to study [[Torah]] and [[Kabbalah]]. Wiesel has said his father represented reason, and his mother, faith (Fine 1982:4). Elie Wiesel had three sisters: Hilda and Bea, who were older than he, and Tzipora, who was the youngest in the family. Bea and Hilda also survived the war and eventually emigrated to North America, in Bea's case, to Montreal, Canada. ==World War II== The town of Sighet [[Second Vienna Award|was re-annexed to Hungary]]. In 1944 Elie, his family and the rest of the town were placed in one of the two ghettos in Sighet. Elie and his family lived in the larger of the two, on Serpent Street. On [[May 16]], [[1944]], the Hungarian authorities [[deport]]ed the Jewish community in Sighet to [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz – Birkenau]]. While at Auschwitz, the number A-7713 was branded onto his left arm. Wiesel was separated from his mother and sister Tzipora, who are presumed to have been murdered at Auschwitz. Wiesel and his father were sent to the attached work camp Buna-Werke, a subcamp of [[Auschwitz Concentration Camp|Auschwitz III Monowitz]]. He managed to remain with his father for a year as they were forced to work under appalling conditions and shuffled between concentration camps in the closing days of the war. On [[January 29]], [[1945]], just a few weeks after the two were marched to [[Buchenwald]] and only months before the camp was liberated by the [[United States|American]] [[U.S. Third Army|Third Army]] on [[April 11]], Wiesel's father suffered from [[dysentery]], [[starvation]], and [[exhaustion]], and was later sent to the crematory. The last word his father spoke was "Eliezer”, Elie's name.<ref>see the film "Elie Wiesel Goes Home" by Judit Elek, narrated by William Hurt ISBN #1-930545-63-0</ref> ==After the war== After the war, Wiesel was placed in a [[France|French]] [[orphanage]], where he learned the [[French language]] and was reunited with both his older sisters, Hilda and Bea, who had also survived the war. In 1948 he studied philosophy at the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]]. He taught [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] and worked as a choirmaster before becoming a professional journalist. He wrote for Israeli and French newspapers, including ''[[Tsien in Kamf]]'' (in [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]]) and the French Jewish Magazine, ''[[L'arche]]''. However, for 10 years after the war, Wiesel refused to write about or discuss his experiences during the Holocaust. Like many survivors, Wiesel could not find the words to describe his experiences. However, a meeting with [[François Mauriac]], the [[1952]] [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Laureate in Literature]], who eventually became Wiesel's close friend, persuaded him to write about his Holocaust experiences. Wiesel first wrote the 900-page tome ''Un di velt hot geshvign'' (And the World Remained Silent), in [[Yiddish]], which was published in abridged form in [[Buenos Aires]]. Wiesel rewrote a shortened version of the manuscript in French, and it was published as the 127-page autobiography ''La Nuit'', and later translated into English as ''[[Night (novel)|Night]].'' Even with Mauriac's support, Wiesel had trouble finding a [[publisher]] for his book, and initially it sold few copies. {{Quote box |width=85% |align=center |quote=<div style="line-height:1.3em;">I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone&nbsp;&ndash; terribly alone in a world without God and without man.</div> |source=<div style="line-height:1.3em;">Elie Wiesel, ''Night''<br /><small>(1958, translated by Stella Rodway)</small></div>}} ==Life in the United States== [[Image:Eli wiesel house in sighet01.jpg|thumb|right|The house where Elie Wiesel was born]] In 1955, Wiesel moved to [[New York City]], having become a U.S. citizen: due to injuries suffered in a traffic accident, he was forced to stay in New York past his visa's expiration and was offered citizenship to resolve his status. In the U.S., Wiesel wrote over 40 books, both fiction and non-fiction, and won many literary prizes. Wiesel's writing is considered among the most important in [[The Holocaust in art and literature|Holocaust literature]]. Some historians credit Wiesel with giving the term 'Holocaust' its present meaning, but he does not feel that the word adequately describes the event and wishes it were used less frequently to describe significant occurrences as everyday tragedies (Wiesel:1999, 18). He was awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1986 for speaking out against violence, repression, and racism. He has received many other prizes and honors for his work, including the [[Congressional Gold Medal]] in 1985, and was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] in 1996. He is also the recipient of The International Center in New York's Award of Excellence. Wiesel has published two volumes of his [[memoirs]]. The first, ''All Rivers Run to the Sea'', was published in 1994 and covered his life up to the year 1969 while the second, titled ''And the Sea is Never Full'' and published in 1999, covered 1969 to 1999. Wiesel and his wife, Marion, started the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. He served as chairman for the [[Presidential Commission on the Holocaust]] (later renamed [[U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council]]) from 1978 to 1986, spearheading the building of the [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]] in [[Washington, DC]]. [[Image:Eli Wiesel US Congress.jpg|thumb|right|Wiesel addressing the [[United States Congress]].]] Wiesel is particularly fond of teaching and holds the position of [[Andrew Mellon]] Professor of the [[Humanities]] at [[Boston University]]. From 1972 to 1976, Wiesel was a Distinguished Professor at the [[City University of New York]] and member of the [[American Federation of Teachers]]. In 1982 he served as the first [[Henry Luce]] Visiting Scholar in Humanities and Social Thought at [[Yale University]]. He also co-instructs Winter Term (January) courses at [[Eckerd College]], [[St. Petersburg, Florida]]. From 1997 to 1999 he was Ingeborg Rennert Visiting Professor of [[Judaic Studies]] at [[Barnard College]]. Wiesel has become a popular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust. As a [[political activist]], he has advocated for many causes, including [[Israel]], the plight of [[Soviet Jews|Soviet]] and [[Beta Israel|Ethiopian Jews]], the victims of ''[[apartheid]]'' in [[South Africa]], [[Argentina]]'s ''[[Desaparecidos]]'', [[Bosnians|Bosnian]] victims of [[genocide]] in the former [[Yugoslavia]], [[Nicaragua]]'s [[Miskito|Miskito Indians]], and the [[Kurds]]. He recently voiced support for intervention in [[Darfur]], Sudan.<ref name="American Jewish World Service">[http://www.ajws.org/index.cfm?section_id=8&sub_section_id=14&page_id=285 Elie Wiesel: On the Atrocities in Sudan]</ref> He also led a commission organized by the [[Romania]]n government to research and write a report, released in 2004, on the true history of the Holocaust in Romania and the involvement of the Romanian wartime regime in atrocities against Jews and other groups, including the [[Roma people|Roma]]. The Romanian government accepted the findings in the report and committed to implementing the commission's recommendations for educating the public on the history of the Holocaust in Romania. The commission, formally called the International Commission for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, came to be called the [[Wiesel Commission]] in honor of his leadership. Wiesel is the honorary chair of the [[Habonim Dror]] Camp Miriam Campership and Building Fund, and a member of the International Council of the New York-based [[Human Rights Foundation]]. On [[March 27]], [[2001]], Wiesel appeared at the University of Florida for Jewish Awareness Month and was presented with an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from the University of Florida by Dr. Charles Young.<ref>[http://www.alligator.org/edit/issues/01-spring/010323/b13wiesel23.htm Independent Florida Alligator article [[March 23]], [[2001]]]</ref> In 2002<ref name="RoEmbUs">''[http://www.roembus.org/English/news/press_releases/2002/July_23_2002.htm Elie Wiesel Returns to his Home in Sighet, Romania]'', Embassy of Romania in the United States, 23 July 2002.</ref>, he inaugurated the Elie Wiesel Memorial House in Sighet in his childhood home. ===Recent years=== In 2008 Wiesel gave the convocation speech at [[Appalachian State University]]. The money paid for his appearance covered costs of travel and the rest went to his various charitable institutions. In early 2006, Wiesel traveled to [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]] with [[Oprah Winfrey]], a visit which was broadcast as part of ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]'' on [[May 24]], [[2006]].<ref>[http://www.oprah.com/about/press/releases/200605/press_releases_20060519.jhtml Press Release ~ Oprah.com]</ref> Wiesel said that this would most likely be his last trip there. In September 2006, he appeared before the [[UN Security Council]] with actor [[George Clooney]] to call attention to the humanitarian crisis in [[Darfur]]. On [[November 30]], [[2006]] Wiesel received an honorary [[British honours system#Knighthood|knighthood]] in London in recognition of his work toward raising Holocaust education in the United Kingdom.<ref>[http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/national/?content_id=4994 "Wiesel Receives Honorary Knighthood" ~ TotallyJewish.com]</ref> On [[February 1]], [[2007]], Wiesel was attacked in a [[San Francisco]] hotel. Twenty-two year old [[Eric Hunt]] confessed on an antisemitic website to the attack, saying he had tried to drag Wiesel out of the hotel elevator in order to "bring [him] to my hotel room where he would truthfully answer my questions regarding the fact that his non-fiction Holocaust memoir, ''[[Night (book)|Night]]'', is almost entirely fictitious."<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17193352/ "Suspect named in Wiesel attack"], ''MSNBC, February 16, 2007.</ref> On [[February 17]], [[2007]], Hunt was arrested in [[Montgomery Township, New Jersey]]. He faces charges that include attempted [[kidnapping]], [[false imprisonment]], [[elder abuse]], [[stalking]], [[battery (tort)|battery]] and the commission of a [[hate crime]].<ref>[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070218/ap_on_re_us/wiesel_accosted "N.J. man arrested in attack on Wiesel"], ''Yahoo! News, February 17, 2007.</ref> On [[April 25]], [[2007]], Wiesel was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters degree from the [[University of Vermont]]. During the early 2007 selection process for the [[Kadima]] candidate for [[President of Israel|President]] of [[Israel]], [[Prime Minister of Israel|Prime Minister]] [[Ehud Olmert]] reportedly offered Wiesel the nomination (and, as the ruling-party candidate and an apolitical figure, likely the Presidency), but Wiesel "was not very interested".<ref>[http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1159193468801&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Olmert backs Peres as next president] Jerusalem Post, 18 October 2006</ref> [[Shimon Peres]] was chosen as the Kadima candidate (and later President) instead. On April 9, 2008, Wiesel was presented with an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters at the City College of New York. == Criticism == Wiesel has been criticized for exhibiting uncritical moral support for the state of Israel, and for the manner in which he defends this position. [[Christopher Hitchens]] has condemned him as a "contemptible poseur and windbag".<ref name=weasel>[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010219/hitchens Wiesel Words]. ''The Nation''. February 19, 2001</ref> Hitchens suggests that Wiesel was associated with the militant Zionist organization [[Irgun]] in the 1940s, an organization that "employed extreme violence against Arab civilians".<ref name=weasel /> Hitchens also has attacked Wiesel for failing to condemn promptly the [[Sabra and Shatila massacre]]. Hitchens suggests that Wiesel refrained from condemning the massacre because he was reluctant to criticize Israel.<ref name=weasel /> [[Noam Chomsky]] also criticized Wiesel's response to the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Chomsky suggests that Wiesel attempted to excuse Israeli responsibility in the massacre by emphasizing "after all the Israeli soldiers did not kill"; Chomsky suggests that Wiesel's real concern in regards to the Sabra and Shatila massacre is that it reflects badly on Israel.<ref name=chomps>Noam Chomsky, "Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians", Pluto Press, London, 1999, p.386/7</ref> Chomsky notes that Israeli troops participated in much killing in their own right, suggesting that Wiesel views Israel as "basically exempt from criticism".<ref name=chomps /> In a radio interview, controversial scholar [[Norman Finkelstein]] accused Wiesel of cheapening the moral coinage of the Nazi Holocaust by asserting its uniqueness while profiting from public fascination with it: <blockquote> Elie Wiesel is always wheeled out, and with his long face and anguished heart and cinematic eyes, he always says: "Oh, do not compare." I beg your pardon, I think you should compare. Otherwise, if you don't want to compare, what's the point of it? What are you going to learn from it? ... He says the only thing we can do before the Nazi Holocaust is silence. Well if silence is the only answer, why are you charging $25,000 a lecture? And what are you going to learn from silence? I mean, this is sheer nonsense.<ref>[http://rms01.cites.uiuc.edu/ramgen/WILL/archives/focus041005a.rm WILL Radio Interview, University of Illinois, October 4, 2004. Passage begins: 17:45]</ref> </blockquote> Finkelstein's book [[The Holocaust Industry]] has a section criticizing the "uniqueness doctrine" attributed to Wiesel and to the "Holocaust Industry" as a whole. Wiesel is critisised thoroughly throughout the book and it's argued that he is one of the frontmen of the the "Holocaust Industry" as he has refused to critisize Israel for the [[Sabra and Shatila Massacre]] and, according to Finkelstein, is intenting to diminish the importance of the genocides of communists, socialists, the [[Roma people]], homosexuals and handicapped by the Nazis and the [[Armenian Genocide|Turks genocide of the Armenians]]. == Books == <small>ISBNs may be of reissues or reprints. Most are paperback.</small> * ''[[Un di velt hot geshvign]]'' (Tsentral-Farband fun Poylishe Yidn in Argentine, 1956) ISBN 0-374-52140-9; includes the following 3 books: ** ''[[Night (novel)|Night]]'' (Hill and Wang 1958; 2006) ISBN 0-553-27253-5 ** ''[[Dawn (novel)|Dawn]]'' (Hill and Wang 1961; 2006) ISBN 0-553-22536-7 ** ''[[Day (novel)|Day]]'', previously titled "The Accident" (Hill and Wang 1962; 2006) ISBN 0-553-58170-8 * ''The Town Beyond the Wall'' (Atheneum 1964) * ''[[The Gates of the Forest]]'' (Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1966) * ''The Jews of Silence'' (Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1966) ISBN 0-935613-01-3 * ''Legends of our Time'' (Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1968) * ''A Beggar in Jerusalem'' (Random House 1970) * ''One Generation After'' (Random House 1970) * ''Souls on Fire'' (Random House 1972) ISBN 0-671-44171-X * ''Night Trilogy'' (Hill and Wang 1972) * ''[[The Oath]]'' (Random House 1973) ISBN 0-935613-11-0 * ''Ani Maamin'' (Random House 1973) * ''Zalmen, or the Madness of God'' (Random House 1974) * ''Messengers of God'' (Random House 1976) ISBN 0-671-54134-X * ''A Jew Today'' (Random House 1978) ISBN 0-935613-15-3 * ''Four [[Hasidic]] Masters'' (University of Notre Dame Press 1978) * ''Images from the Bible'' (The Overlook Press 1980) * ''The Trial of God'' (Random House 1979) * ''The Testament'' (Summit 1981) * ''Five Biblical Portraits'' (University of Notre Dame Press 1981) * ''Somewhere a Master'' (Summit 1982) * ''The [[Golem]]'' (illustrated by [[Mark Podwal]]) (Summit 1983) ISBN 0-671-49624-7 * ''The Fifth Son'' (Summit 1985) * ''Against Silence'' (Holocaust Library 1985) * ''Twilight'' (Summit 1988) * ''The Six Days of Destruction'' (co-author [[Albert Friedlander]], illustrated by [[Mark Podwal]]) (Paulist Press 1988) * ''A Journey of Faith'' (Donald I. Fine 1990) * ''From the Kingdom of Memory'' (Summit 1990) * ''Evil and Exile'' (University of Notre Dame Press 1990) * ''Sages and Dreamers'' (Summit 1991) * ''[[The Forgotten (novel)|The Forgotten]]'' (Summit 1992) ISBN 0-8052-1019-9 * ''A Passover [[Haggadah]]'' (illustrated by [[Mark Podwal]]) (Simon and Schuster 1993) ISBN 0-671-73541-1 * ''All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, Vol. I, 1928-1969'' (Knopf 1995) ISBN 0-8052-1028-8 * ''Memoir in Two Voices'', with [[François Mitterrand]] (Arcade 1996) * ''And the Sea is Never Full: Memoirs Vol. II, 1969'' (Knopf 1999) ISBN 0-8052-1029-6 * ''King Solomon and his Magic Ring'' (illustrated by [[Mark Podwal]]) (Greenwillow 1999) * ''Conversations with Elie Wiesel'' (Schocken 2001) * ''The Judges'' (Knopf 2002) * ''Wise Men and Their Tales'' (Schocken 2003) ISBN 0-8052-4173-6 * ''The Time of the Uprooted'' (Knopf 2005) ==See also== * ''[[The Boys of Buchenwald]]'' &ndash; A documentary about the orphanage in which he stayed after the Holocaust == Notes == {{reflist}} ==References== * Berenbaum, Michael: ''The Vision of the Void. Theological Reflections on the Works of Elie Wiesel'', Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1979 ISBN 0-8195-6189-4 PA * Fonseca, Isabel: ''Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey'', London, Vintage, 1996 * [http://www.pbs.org/eliewiesel/ Elie Wiesel: First Person Singular] PBS special on Elie Wiesel * [http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/wiesel.htm Text and audio of Elie Wiesel's famous speech on "The Perils of Indifference"] * {{WiredForBooks|eliewiesel|1988 Audio Interview with Elie Wiesel by Don Swaim of CBS Radio, RealAudio}} * [http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20010219&s=hitchens Christopher Hitchens criticizes Elie Wiesel in the Nation Magazine] * [http://www.jewsweek.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article^l223&enZone=Articles&enVersion=0& "8 Questions for Elie Wiesel", JEWSWEEK article briefly discussing Wiesel's view regarding the moral necessity of the Iraq War.] * Fine, Ellen S. ''Legacy of Night: The Literary Universe of Elie Wiesel''. State University of New York Press, 1982. ISBN 0-87395-590-0 (paperback) * Wiesel, Elie. ''All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs.'' New York: Knopf, 1995. * Wiesel, Elie. ''And the Sea is Never Full: Memoirs 1969-''. New York: Schocken, 1999. * [http://video.on.nytimes.com/ifr_main.jsp?nsid=b-3659c9d0:10c95d81fe8:46cc&st=1153577610140&mp=FLV&cpf=false&fr=072206_101340_w3659c9d0x10c95d81fe8x46cd&rdm=755152.2347104911 New York Times - The Conversation with Elie Wiesel] * [http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1153950610691&call_pageid=968332188492 "Elie Wiesel on his Beliefs" ~ Toronto Star] ==External links== {{Wikiquote}} {{commonscat}} * [http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/antisemitism/voices/transcript/index.php?content=20070524 ''Voices on Antisemitism'' Interview with Elie Wiesel] from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum * [http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ewieselperilsofindifference.html Text and Audio of Wiesel's "Perils of Indifference" Speech] * [http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=17914 Ubben Lecture at DePauw University] * [http://media.uoregon.edu/medsvs/ethics_holocaust/ Video of Ethics After the Holocaust speech] * [http://www.examiner.com/a-556256~Author_attacked_in_S_F__hotel.html Author attacked in S.F. hotel] {{Nobel Peace Prize Laureates 1976-2000}} <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]] --> {{Persondata |NAME= Wiesel, Elie |ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Wiesel, Eliezer |SHORT DESCRIPTION= American-Jewish political activist, professor, and novelist |DATE OF BIRTH= {{Birth date and age|1928|9|9|mf=y}} |PLACE OF BIRTH= [[Sighetu Marmaţiei|Sighet]], [[Maramures County]], [[Romania]] |DATE OF DEATH= |PLACE OF DEATH= }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wiesel, Elie}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Congressional Gold Medal recipients]] [[Category:Stateless persons]] [[Category:Hungarian Nobel laureates]] [[Category:Hungarian writers]] [[Category:Romanian writers]] [[Category:French writers]] [[Category:American activists]] [[Category:American memoirists]] [[Category:American novelists]] [[Category:American religious writers]] [[Category:Members of The American Academy of Arts and Letters]] [[Category:People from Sighetu Marmaţiei]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:Nazi concentration camp survivors]] [[Category:The Holocaust]] [[Category:Nobel Peace Prize laureates]] [[Category:Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients]] [[Category:Jewish American writers]] [[Category:Biblical scholars]] [[Category:Hasidic Judaism]] [[Category:Romanian Jews]] [[Category:Hungarian Jews]] [[Category:French Jews]] [[Category:American Jews]] [[Category:American Federation of Teachers]] [[Category:University of Paris alumni]] [[Category:Yiddish-language writers]] [[Category:Boston University faculty]] [[Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] [[ar:ايلي ويسل]] [[bg:Ели Визел]] [[ca:Elie Wiesel]] [[cs:Elie Wiesel]] [[de:Elie Wiesel]] [[es:Elie Wiesel]] [[eo:Elie Wiesel]] [[fr:Elie Wiesel]] [[id:Elie Wiesel]] [[it:Elie Wiesel]] [[he:אלי ויזל]] [[hu:Elie Wiesel]] [[nl:Elie Wiesel]] [[ja:エリ・ヴィーゼル]] [[no:Elie Wiesel]] [[pl:Elie Wiesel]] [[pt:Elie Wiesel]] [[ro:Elie Wiesel]] [[ru:Визель, Эли]] [[fi:Elie Wiesel]] [[sv:Elie Wiesel]] [[vi:Elie Wiesel]] [[tr:Elie Wiesel]] [[yi:אלי וויזעל]] [[zh:埃利·维瑟尔]]