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 * 1) His best seller book Night influenced many people to tell there story.
 * 2) Elie Wiesel's experience in the holocaust has taught many people the tragedies of this horrible event during the 1940's.
 * 3) His influence on history shows us how strong he was in order to survive.
 * 4) The holocaust influenced Elie Wiesel to tell about what it was like being a teenage boy to live in that situation and watch his father die and know that it was just him for himself.
 * 5) People believe that the holocaust never occurred and meet in secret to discuss there theories and research.
 * 6) I think that since Elie had experienced his writing because he witnessed it. I say that because there is more emotion and detail. i think it might have been hard on him bringing back all those memories.
 * 7) Elie Wiesel has showed many people how strong you had to be to live through that.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">He had seen millions of innocent murdered each day.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">There were camps where they would work and possibly survive but in other camps people chosen and killed with no chance of survival.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">I'm sure to many people Elie Wiesel is a hero for his survival.
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania, on September 30, 1928.
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">He was awarded France's Prix Medicis in 1969
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Wiesel was the recipient of numerous awards throughout his career, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In 1979 President Jimmy Carter named wiesel chair of the President's Commission on the Holocaust﻿.
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In addition to his literary activities, Wiesel played an important role as a public orator
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Each year he gave a series of lectures on Jewish tradition at New York's 92nd Street Young Men's Christian Association.
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">As a social activist, Wiesel used his writing to plead for Jews in danger and on behalf of all humanity.
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Wiesel captured the spiritual reawakening that was to mark the struggle of Soviet Jewry during the 1970s and 1980s. Soviet Jews were not Wiesel's Jews of silence.
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In 1956 Wiesel's first book, a Yiddish memoir entitled And the World Was Silent, was published in Argentina
 * 20) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Throughout his other works, the Holocaust looms as the shadow, the central but unspoken mystery in the life of his protagonists.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">As one of the world's most important figures and writers, Elie Wiesel helped define the 20th century.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In this interview, Wiesel discusses his writing, lecturing and thoughts on the nature of faith.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">For years, he has defended the importance of memory against those who deny aspects of the Holocaust.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, author of more than 30 novels
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">As one of the world's most important figures and writers, Elie Wiesel helped define the 20th century.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">recipient of more than 100 honorary degrees
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Humanities professor and recipient of 75 honorary degrees and many international writing awards
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">He continues his defining moments in The Time of the Uprooted ....It can be intimidating to interview an icon, as Wiesel undoubtedly is.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Wiesel began writing to bear witness to the Holocaust and to inspire others to write their stories
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Elie Wiesel's Dawn is both a stand-alone novella and the second part of three books that comprise the author's Night Trilogy
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The special session was scheduled earlier this month after a majority of the world body's 191 members voiced their support for a first-ever commemoration of the Holocaust
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">.Half a century after its publication Night which details Wiesel's months in Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a young teenager, continues to appear on bestseller lists.
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Dawn (one of his other books) draws upon events surrounding the Holocaust for its storyline and themes; but the focus here is on a time and place after the Nazis have been defeated and Israel is making plans to become an independent nation-state in the Middle East.
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Mr. Wiesel's famous book about his imprisonment in Auschwitz, blurs the distinction between fiction and reality.
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">He made them to himself when he was a skinny teenager in the Nazi death camps, prisoner A-7713.
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">That number is still tattooed on his arm.
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Elie Wiesel imagined that his faith was dead--incinerated with the 6 million Jewish lives lost in the Holocaust.
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In this profile, Wiesel discusses his life, literary career and the inspiration for his 49th book
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">While literary representations of the Holocaust are, at some level, inherently false.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">This book consists of 30 essays by winners of the ElieWiesel Foundation for Humanity Ethics Prize
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Wiesel Night returns to the moral questions that characterize the post-WWII generation in this slim novel that is both overstuffed with plot and skimpy on motive.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">He is enthusiastic, but the trial is an unsettling opportunity for him to search the past and his family history, and also inexplicably angers his wife, Alika, a stage actress.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Jewish protagonist is a New York newspaper drama critic who finds himself in the unlikely position of covering a murder trial
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">A 24-year-old philosophy student from Germany receives an unexpected visitor, an older German who introduces himself as the student's uncle
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The student returns without the older man, whose dead body is later found, leading to the murder charge
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">From the first clear, simple sentence, melancholy hangs over the story, always permeating the author's voice
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">For instance, the same photo is used to depict starvation deaths during WWII and again during India's fight for independence in the film about Mother Teresa.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">. Yedidyah Wasserman, a well-regarded theater critic in New York City, is split between his parents' generation of Holocaust survivors and that of his sons, young American men who have chosen to move to Israel.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Published in France this year, the novel centers around a Jewish man in his 60s in New York City whose visits to a psychoanalyst explore the question of whether an overabundance of memory can drive one mad.
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Gamaliel Friedman, a Czech Jew, escaped to Hungary as a child during WWII and survived in the care of a Christian cabaret singer named Ilonka.
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">As the book opens in present-day New York, Gamaliel calls on a nameless dying woman who only speaks Hungarian, and his numerous visits to her hospital bed are interspersed with stories of his many loves and losses
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">His only consolations are his manuscript the Secret Book, and his small, colorful group of fellow stateless Jews
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Nobel laureate Wiesel (Night) grapples with questions of madness, sadness and memory in this difficult but powerful novel
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, survived the occupation in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance.
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">He did not escape tragedy: his two siblings were murdered and his parents died in an accident shortly after the war.
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">At the novel's opening, he is 60 years old, miserable, alone and on the verge of insanity.
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Since 1996, Sparks has written 11 bestsellers--10 novels and one nonfiction
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The author claims that in addition to writing, reading and spending time with his five children, he runs 30 miles a week, lifts weights four times a week and practices tae kwon do
 * 20) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">As a black belt, he competes at both the regional and national levels.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Only in Night does Wiesel speak about the Holocaust directly.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In 1956 he moved to New York to cover the United Nations and became a U.S. citizen in 1963.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The struggle between life and death continues to dominate Wiesel's third work of the trilogy, but in The Accident (Le Jour in French), published in 1962, God is not implicated in either life or death.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Wiesel's next two novels come to terms with suffering and hope, reaffirming his commitment to man and his duel with God.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In 1985 Wiesel led the opposition to President Ronald Reagan's trip to a German military cemetery which contained the graves of Adolf Hitler's elite S.S. Waffen soldiers.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Wiesel's humanitarian activities were rewarded with many honors, such as Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Award (1972)
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Wiesel also wrote a play set in the Soviet Union, entitled Zalman or the Madness of God (1974), which dramatizes the fate of a rabbi who defied the Soviet system and spoke out on Yom Kippur eve.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Wiesel's novels usually involve spiritual dilemmas that confront his narrators
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The themes of these stories remained tragedy and joy, madness and hope, the fragility of meaning, and the quest for faith.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">This is why survivors have tried to teach their contemporaries how to build on ruins
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">He was awarded France's Prix Medicis in 1969, and three years later the Prix Bordin from the French Academy.
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Other book awards include the Remembrance Award (1965), Jewish Heritage Award for excellence in literature (1966)
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Western Jews, who dared not speak out on their brothers' behalf, were the silent ones.
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Wiesel captured the spiritual reawakening that was to mark the struggle of Soviet Jewry during the 1970s and 1980s.
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Soviet Jews were not Wiesel's Jews of silence.
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In The Gates of the Forest (1966), a novel describing a survivor's unsuccessful attempts to bury the past and live in the present, this same need for relationship is reaffirmed as the protagonist discovers his own weakness and need for love.
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The titles of his books grow brighter as the presence of God becomes dimmer, yet the transition is never easy.
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Night is widely considered a classic of Holocaust literature.
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Young Elisha is ordered to execute a British Army officer in retaliation for the hanging of a young Jewish fighter.
 * 20) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">God is not implicated in either life or death. The battle is waged within the protagonist, now a newspaper correspondent covering the United Nations, who is fighting for life after an accident.