Timeline of Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel is a Jewish Romanian-American writer, professor and the author of the bestselling book "Night" as well as many other books dealing with Judaism, the Holocaust, and the moral responsibility of the people to fight hatred, racism and genocide. A Holocaust survivor, Wiesel lost his parents in his early childhood and escaped to France where he studied literature, philosophy, and psychology at the Sorbonne. Wiesel emerged as a noted journalist and eventually settled in America. Catholic writer Francois Mauriac successfully persuaded Wiesel to write his experiences of the "Holocaust" which he did in his memoir "Night". While his most of the works indirectly address the appalling Holocaust, his literary excellence is often overshadowed by his role of a Holocaust testimony. In his later life, Wiesel emerged as a political activist and humanitarian and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for voicing his concern about the "global crisis of humanity".
Childhood
Born on 30th of September 1928 in the town of Sighet, Transylvanina, Elie’s father was an orthodox Jew who worked in a grocery store and his mother was a daughter of a farmer.
His father Chlomo Wiesel was an orthodox Jew and had a grocery store while Sarah, his mother, was a daughter of a farmer. Growing up in a small village in Romania, Elie’s world revolved around family, religious study, community and God. Chlomo instilled a strong sense of humanism in his son, encouraging him to learn Modern Hebrew and to read literature, whereas his mother encouraged him to study Torah and Kabbalah. Elie grew up speaking Yiddish at home, and Hungarian, Romanian, and German outside.

Days in Death Camps
During World War II in 1994, Elie and his family with some other Jews were deported to the German concentration and extermination camps in Poland. He and his father got separated from his mother and his younger sister taken to Auschwitz. His father and he were forced to work in a cold, bitter condition in the concentration camp. Elie moved to several different concentration camp and ended up being in the Buchenwald where his father died after suffering from dysentery and starvation.

End of Holocaust
In April 1945, the camps got liberated. Wiesel spent a few years in a French orphanage where he got reunited with his older sisters. Wiesel, from the shock of his experiences during the 10years of Holocaust refused to write for discuss of his experiences. In 1948, Elie began to study literature, philosophy and psychology in Paris. He got involved in working in the French newspaper L’arche as a journalist. He wrote for Israeli and French newspaper. He wrote about his experiences in the death camps after the urge of Catholic writer Francois Mauriac.


Timeline:
1928, September 30: Birth of Elie Wiesel at Sighet, now Romania
1944: During the Second World War, all the Jews from the region were deported to concentration camps in Poland.
1945: January 29: His father Chlomo died of starvation and dysentery
1945: April: Jews were liberated. Wiesel visited France
1956: Wiesel hit by a taxicab in New York
1965: Wiesel traveled to the USSR and shared his experiences in “The Jews of Silence”.
1972: Appointed professor of Humanity at City Unviersity of New York
1976: He joined Boston University as a professor of Humanity
1978: Chairperson of the US Holocaust Memorial Council
1985: He won the Congressional Gold Medal
1996: Received Nobel Peace Prize
2006: November 30: Received honorary “Knighthood” in London
2007: February 1: Wiesel was attacked by a young denier of Holocaust

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