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Elie Wiesel: An Afternoon with Elie Wiesel
No full textNobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel is a native of Sighet, Transylvania. In 1944, Wiesel and his family were deported by the Nazis to the Auschwitz concentration camp when he was 15 years old. His mother and younger sister perished there, but his two older sisters survived. Wiesel and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, where his father died.
After World War II, Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist there, yet he remained silent about what he had endured and witnessed as an inmate in the death camps. During an interview with the French writer Francois Mauriac, Wiesel was persuaded to end his silence. He subsequently wrote La Nuit ( Night ), a terrifying account of his experiences in the Nazi death camps. Since its publication in 1958, the book has been translated into 30 languages, and millions of copies have been sold.
Wiesel\u27s personal experience of the Holocaust has led him to use his talents as an author, teacher and storyteller to defend human rights and peace throughout the world. His efforts have earned him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal and the Medal of Liberty Award, the rank of Grand-Croix in the French Legion of Honor, and in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize. He has received more than 100 honorary degrees from institutions of higher learning.
Wiesel has defended the cause of Soviet and Israeli Jews, Nicaragua\u27s Miskito Indians, Argentina\u27s disappeared, Cambodian refugees, the Kurds, South African apartheid victims, famine victims in Africa and prisoners in the former Yugoslavia.
In 1978 President Jimmy Carter appointed him chairman of the President\u27s Commission on the Holocaust. In 1980 he became founding chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. Wiesel is also the founding president of the Paris-based Universal Academy of Cultures. Three months after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Wiesel and his wife established The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity to advance the cause of human rights and peace throughout the world by creating a new forum for the discussion of urgent ethical issues confronting humanity.
Wiesel has written more than 40 books which have won numerous awards, including the Grand Prize for Literature from the city of Paris for The Fifth Son. His two-volume memoir, All Rivers Run to the Sea and And the Sea Is Never Full, was published in 1995 and 1999
A Conversation with Elie Wiesel
No full textWiesel -- professor, award-winning author, Nobel Peace Prize winner, human rights advocate -- is perhaps best known for his 1986 book Night, which recounts the almost 11 months he spent as a Jewish prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp
Elie Wiesel: Conversations
No full textElie Wiesel has given hundreds of interviews. Yet his fame as a human rights advocate often directs such conversations toward non-literary issues. Indeed, many of Wiesel\u27s questioners barely address the writer\u27s role that has defined him since the 1950s.
Unlike previous volumes in which he speaks with interviewers, Elie Wiesel: Conversations collects interviews which set in relief the writer at work. This book focuses on Wiesel the literary artist instead of Wiesel the Holocaust survivor or the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Beyond highlighting Wiesel\u27s literary significance, these interviews also correct many faulty assumptions about his achievement. Few American readers know that he writes in French, that he has been favorably compared to André Malraux and Albert Camus. Not many realize that the Holocaust has been the subject of only a few of his forty books. Particularly in his nonfiction, Wiesel\u27s scope is wide, addressing Jewish life in all its religious and historical complexity.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1244/thumbnail.jp
Letter, Elie Wiesel to Alicia Appleman-Jurman, July 31, 1986
No full textA hand-written letter from Elie Wiesel, then-professor at Boston University, to Alicia Appleman-Jurman.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/alicia_appleman_jurman/1044/thumbnail.jp
Letter Written by Charles A. Wiesel to the Bryant College Service Club Dated December 25, 1943
No full text[Transcription begins]470th Bombardment Squadron339th Bomber GroupGreenville Air BaseGreenville, South CarolinaDecember 25, 1943
Dear Friends of the Bryant Service Club,
Received your fine gift yesterday. Although it had been sent via Virginia and detoured through Jefferson Barracks, I received in time for Xmas in good shape. I wish to thank you very much for your thoughtfullness [sic].
While in J. B. I had the pleasure of living in the same barracks with one of our Bryant Alumni, Robert Bernstein. It was a very happy reunion.
I hope that you all have had an enjoyable holliday [sic] and that the new year brings you much success.
Yours sincerely,Charles A. Wiesel[Transcription ends
Elie Wiesel Photograph with Signature
No full textImage of Elie Wiesel with book in hand; handwritten note, \u27For Paul Lorenzen - with best wishes Elie Wiesel\u27 in blue ink.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:
Congressional Medal of Honor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, author of numerous works informed by his experiences in concentration camps. Elie Wiesel was born to a religious family in Sighet Romania. He was sent to Auschwitz along with his father, mother and three sisters. His mother and sisters were murdered in the gas chambers upon arrival. Transferred with his father to Buchenwald, his father perished. Wiesel promoted human rights and remembrance of the Holocaust throughout his life.https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/2327/thumbnail.jp
Elie Wiesel Speaks in Riley Gymnasium
No full textElie Wiesel, author, human rights activist, and winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks in Riley Gym at Linfield College as part of the Oregon Nobel Laureate Symposium. Wiesel\u27s speech was titled Building a Moral Society: The Holocaust and Beyond.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/lca_photos/1365/thumbnail.jp
Letter Written by Charles A. Wiesel to the Bryant College Service Club Dated [1943/44?]
No full text[Transcription begins] A.A.F.T.T.C. [Crossed out by hand]: ATLANTIC CITY NEW JERSEY [Alternate address written by hand]: Co B (Prov.) Vint Hill Farm Station Warrenton, Virginia
Bryant Service Club Bryant College Providence, R. I.
Dear Friends:
I received your delicious package of cookies about an hour ago but they are only a pleasant memory now. They were very much appreciated and enjoyed. Thank you all for your generous gift.
We have a marvelous K.P. system here. The table[s] are all set and food is there waiting for us when we arrive. When we have exhausted the supply of food on the table, we merely signal a K. P. who takes the serving trays & plates up to the kitchen for refilling. Usually the K.P.s will walk around asking, “are you gentlemen in need of anything—can I get you something else?” Very soon I, too, will be asking these same questions.
The authorities do not allow us to divulge the name of the school or the nature of the course. However, I will be applying some of my training that I had received at Bryant. I understand logic is the most important thing that I do need. Time will tell whether or not I possess this.
I wish you all a very successful future and I again thank you for your thoughtfulness.
Yours sincerely, Charles A. Wiesel [Transcription ends
Night
No full textNight is Elie Wiesel\u27s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie\u27s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author\u27s original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man\u27s capacity for inhumanity to man.https://scholar.dominican.edu/cynthia-stokes-brown-books-american-history/1074/thumbnail.jp
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
No full textWhile attending medical school at McGill, David Hubel developed an interest in the nervous system during the summers he spent at the Montreal Neurological Institute. After heading to the United States in 1954 for a Neurology year at Johns Hopkins, he was drafted by the army and was assigned to the Neuropsychiatry Division at the Walter Reed Hospital, where he began his career in research and did his first recordings from the visual cortex of sleeping and awake cats. In 1958, he moved to the lab of Stephen Kuffler at Johns Hopkins, where he began a long and fruitful collaboration with Torsten Wiesel.Born in Sweden, Torsten Wiesel began his scientific career at the Karolinska Institute, where he received his medical degree in 1954. After spending a year in Carl Gustaf Bernhard’s laboratory doing basic neurophysiological research, he moved to the United States to be a postdoctoral fellow with Stephen Kuffler. It was at Johns Hopkins where he met David Hubel in 1958, and they began working together on exploring the receptive field properties of neurons in the visual cortex. Their collaboration continued until the late seventies.Hubel and Wiesel’s work provided fundamental insight into information processing in the visual system and laid the foundation for the field of visual neuroscience. They have had many achievements, including—but not limited to—the discovery of orientation selectivity in visual cortex neurons and the characterization of the columnar organization of visual cortex through their discovery of orientation columns and ocular-dominance columns. Their work earned them the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1981, which they shared with Roger Sperry
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