Name	Elie Wiesel
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	30-September-1928
Place of Birth	Sighet, Transylvania, Romania
Famous for	Acting

Elie Wiesel (born September 30, 1928 in the then-Kingdom of Romania), the Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, is one of the most influential and honored witnesses to the Holocaust perpetrated against European Jewry by the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler, also known as The Shoah (1985). A writer whose best-known book is his Holocaust memoir "Night", Wiesel was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1985, the highest honor that the U.S. Congress can bestow. The following year, he won the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize for his tireless campaigning for human rights.

In addition to being a witness to The Shoah and a public supporter of the state of Israel, other causes Wiesel has championed include the plight of Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, Nicaragua's Miskito Indians, and the Kurds. He opposed apartheid in South Africa, denounced genocide in Bosnia and is calling for international intervention in Darfur, Sudan.