Elie Wiesel

Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016) was a writer, teacher, active politician, Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor. The first work "Night" describes his family's experience in the Nazi concentration camp, and its influence is as famous as "Annie's Diary". The Nobel Prize Committee praised him as a "messenger of humanity" and "an important spiritual leader in a world filled with racial discrimination." When Wiesel received the award, he said, "No matter when and where human beings are suffering and being humiliated in the world, you must choose a side. Remaining neutral will only encourage the oppressors, not the victims." Obama called him "the moral voice of our generation and the conscience of the world." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "He was a light in the darkness and always believed in the good side of humanity." On July 2, 2016, Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum confirmed Wiesel's death at the age of 87.