Photos of Elie Wiesel (2024)

Author Elie Wiesel at his office in New York City on Thursday, October 18, 2012.

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Elie Wiesel was interviewed by Chicago Tribune writer Howard Reich at Symphony Center in Chicago on Nov. 11, 2012.

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Elie Wiesel, winner of the 2012 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize, bows to the crowd after being interviewed by Chicago Tribune writer Howard Reich, right, at Symphony Center in Chicago on Nov. 11, 2012.

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World War II veteran Scottie Ooton, center right, who helped to liberate a concentration camp and Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel, center left, are presented with pins as presenters former U.S. President Bill Clinton and museum staff Rebecca Dupas look on during the 20th anniversary National Tribute at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum April 29, 2013 in Washington, DC.

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This April 1945 AP photo shows children and other prisoners liberated by the 3rd U.S. Army marching from the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. The freed prisoners are walking to an American hospital to receive treatment. The tall youth in the line at left, fourth from the front, is Elie Wiesel. Wiesel, a Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, has died. His death was announced Saturday, July 2, 2016 by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. He was 87.

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In this June 5, 2009 AP photo, Holocaust survivor Bertrand Herz, from left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President Barack Obama and Elie Wiesel tour the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in June 2009. Wiesel, the Nobel laureate who was imprisoned at Buchenwald as a young man, has died. His death was announced Saturday, July 2, 2016 by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.

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This Sept. 28, 1979 AP photo shows President Jimmy Carter standing by as Elie Wiesel, chairman of the president’s Holocaust committee, speaks in the White House Rose Garden. Wiesel, the Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor has died. His death was announced Saturday, July 2, 2016 by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. He was 87.

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In this Jan. 17, 1988, AP photo, Nobel Peace Prize winners Lech Walesa, left, and Jewish American writer Elie Wiesel, right, pause at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland. Wiesel, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor whose classic “Night” became a landmark testament to the Nazis’ crimes and launched Wiesel’s long career as one of the world’s foremost witnesses and humanitarians, has died at age 87. His death was announced Saturday, June 2, 2016, by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.

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In this Feb. 25, 2009, AP photo, President Barack Obama presents the 2009 National Humanities Medal to Elie Wiesel. Wiesel, the Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor has died. His death was announced Saturday, July 2, 2016 by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.

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In this Feb. 25, 2010 AP photo, Elie Wiesel is congratulated by first lady Michelle Obama in the East Room of the White House after President Barack Obama, left, presented him with the National Humanities Medal. Wiesel, the Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, has died. His death was announced Saturday, July 2, 2016 by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.

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Author Elie Wiesel relaxes before a lecture in the Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y in New York City on Thursday, October 18, 2012.

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Author Elie Wiesel at his office in New York City on Thursday, October 18, 2012.

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1986 Nobel Peace prize winner and writer Elie Wiesel stands in front of a photo of himself, bottom right, and other inmates at the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945, during his visit on December 18, 1986, to the Holocaust Memorial Center Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

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A bronze bust of Elie Wiesel at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan on Thursday, October 18, 2012.

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