Elie wiesel by Dacey Bishop https://padlet.com/21dbishop/lao6l4nr8idb Introduction of who he is en-us 2019-01-15 15:01:09 UTC 2019-01-17 20:12:24 UTC hello@padlet.com Who he was 21dbishop https://padlet.com/21dbishop/lao6l4nr8idb/wish/320792625 Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in the town of sighet, it is now part of Romania. ]]> 2019-01-15 15:04:20 UTC https://padlet.com/21dbishop/lao6l4nr8idb/wish/320792625 Where he was 21dbishop https://padlet.com/21dbishop/lao6l4nr8idb/wish/320795654 In world war II, he & his family other jews from that area, were deported to german concentration and extermination camps, where his parents and little sister perished. He was taken to paris where he studied at the sorbonne and worked as a journalists. ]]> 2019-01-15 15:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/21dbishop/lao6l4nr8idb/wish/320795654 Who survived 21dbishop https://padlet.com/21dbishop/lao6l4nr8idb/wish/320800115 Wiesel & and his two older sisters. ]]> 2019-01-15 15:15:39 UTC https://padlet.com/21dbishop/lao6l4nr8idb/wish/320800115 His first book 21dbishop https://padlet.com/21dbishop/lao6l4nr8idb/wish/321254036 First book he published was ¨ La Nuit¨, was memoir of his experiences in the concentration camps. ]]> 2019-01-16 14:59:07 UTC https://padlet.com/21dbishop/lao6l4nr8idb/wish/321254036 In the late 70´s & 80ś 21dbishop https://padlet.com/21dbishop/lao6l4nr8idb/wish/321258607 In 1978 President jimmy carter appointed him chairman of Presidents Commission on the Holocaust. He had efforts to defend human rights and peace throughtout the world earned him the Presidental medal of freedom. ]]> 2019-01-16 15:06:38 UTC https://padlet.com/21dbishop/lao6l4nr8idb/wish/321258607 Human rights 21dbishop https://padlet.com/21dbishop/lao6l4nr8idb/wish/321891190 Meanwhile, Wiesel also devoted himself to the conviction, informed by the Holocaust that Jews, and other downtrodden groups, could no longer be allowed to suffer quietly. Wiesel visited the Soviet Union in the mid-1960s, and The Jews of Silence (1966), his book on the degradations suffered by Soviet Jews, and refuseniks in particular, was hugely influential on the burgeoning Soviet Jewry movement in the United States. Wiesel was also an advocate for Kurdish rights, for the people of Cambodia, and against South African apartheid and ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia.]]> 2019-01-17 19:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/21dbishop/lao6l4nr8idb/wish/321891190 info with the U.S 21dbishop https://padlet.com/21dbishop/lao6l4nr8idb/wish/321894333 Mr. Wiesel had a leading role in the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, serving as chairman of the commission that united rival survivor groups to raise funds for a permanent structure. The museum became one of Washington’s most powerful attractions.]]> 2019-01-17 19:59:48 UTC https://padlet.com/21dbishop/lao6l4nr8idb/wish/321894333 21dbishop https://padlet.com/21dbishop/lao6l4nr8idb/wish/321898127 In the days after Buchenwald’s liberation, he decided that he had survived to bear witness, but vowed that he would not speak or write of what he had seen for 10 years. “I didn’t want to use the wrong words,” he once explained.

He was placed on a train of 400 orphans that was diverted to France, and he was assigned to a home in Normandy under the care of a Jewish organization. There he mastered French by reading the classics, and in 1948 he enrolled in the Sorbonne. He supported himself as a tutor, a Hebrew teacher and a translator and began writing for the French newspaper L’Arche.


]]> 2019-01-17 20:08:46 UTC https://padlet.com/21dbishop/lao6l4nr8idb/wish/321898127 21dbishop https://padlet.com/21dbishop/lao6l4nr8idb/wish/321899758 Mr. Wiesel wrote an average of a book a year, 60 books by his own count in 2015. Many were translated from French by his Vienna-born wife, Marion Erster Rose, who survived the war hidden in Vichy, France. They married in Jerusalem in 1969, when Mr. Wiesel was 40, and they had one son, Shlomo Elisha. They survive him, as do a stepdaughter, Jennifer Rose, and two grandchildren.

For Mr. Wiesel, fame did not erase the scars left by the Holocaust — the nightmares, the perpetual insecurity, the inability to laugh deeply. “I live in constant fear,” he said in 1983. In 2007, a 22-year-old man who called Mr. Wiesel’s account of the Holocaust fictitious pulled him out of a hotel elevator in San Francisco and attacked him. (The man was convicted of assault.)
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