Elie Wiesel, who survived the Holocaust and went on to become an influential author and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has died at 87 Born in 1928, Wiesel wrote extensively of his imprisonment in Nazi camps and in 1986 won the Nobel Prize for peace Wiesel was perhaps best known for his major role in promoting Holocaust education and for perpetuating the memory of the Holocaust in the post-World War II era with his memoir “Night,” based on his experience as a teenager in the Auschwitz concentration camp
