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Nobel Prizes Thirteen laureates were awarded a Nobel Prize in , for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. See them all presented here. Elie Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to defend human rights and peace around the world. Elie Wiesel is 16 years old at the conclusion of Night. Wiesel was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in May He was then sent to forced labor at Auschwitz III, also called Monowitz, located several miles from the main camp.
In January , Wiesel was transported to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Elie Wiesel reflected on his relationship with God in writings, speeches, and interviews. He opens his memoir Night by writing about his devout faith and religious education as a young boy. As he witnesses the inhumanity of Auschwitz in Night , Wiesel explains that he began to question God. More than 50 years after liberation, he reflected on this: " What about my faith in you, Master of the Universe?
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Among other things, he describes: the roundup of his family and neighbors in the Romanian town of Sighet; deportation by cattle car to the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau; the selection process during which his mother and younger sister were chosen for immediate death in the gas chambers; the same selection process during which he, his father, and his two other sisters were chosen for forced labor by camp personnel; the death march from Auschwitz-Birkenau to the concentration camp at Buchenwald.
Elie Wiesel as Author Wiesel was a prolific writer and thinker. In a press release, the Nobel Committee described Wiesel as follows: Wiesel is a messenger to mankind; his message is one of peace, atonement and human dignity. Did any of Elie Wiesel's family survive? When did Elie Wiesel die? Elie Wiesel died on July 2, , at the age of Why did Elie Wiesel win the Nobel Prize? What were all of the concentration camps Elie Wiesel went to?
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