Elie Wiesel author of the novel Night, recently passed away at age 87. Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor and author who fought for peace, human rights and simple human decency. He was a spokesman for Israel’s Holocaust memorial.

Wiesel had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for Night and it was published in France in 1958.

Wiesel was born in Romania when he was fifteen when he was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland with his family in 1944. He was later moved and ultimately freed from the Buchenwald camp in 1945.

Of his relatives, only two of his sisters survived. Wiesel said he had survived because an older Jew told him to tell the Nazis he was 18, which made him old enough to work. Wiesel and his family were taken when he was only fifteen years old and only three of them survived him and his two sisters.

Last year Wiesel had done an interview with Oprah Winfrey on his life and about his book. If you are interested here is like the link; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOXqTJ3nqCU.

If you know anyone or think you would like to read the book and get more into depth with the details, it is available almost anywhere, Barnes & Noble;     http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/night-elie-wiesel/1116731697  and Google Play; https://play.google.com/store/books/details?pcampaignid=books_read_action&id=ELbHiPmYSM4C have the book for $9.95.