| LC control no. | n 79039905 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PQ2683.I32 |
| Personal name heading | Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016 |
| Variant(s) | Wiesel, Eliezer, 1928-2016 Wiezel, Eli, 1928-2016 Vizel, Eli, 1928-2016 Weisel, Elie, 1928-2016 Визель, Эли, 1928-2016 וויזל, אליעזר וויזל, אליעזר, 1928־ וויזל, אליעזר4 ווייזעל, אלי, 1928־ וויסל, עליעזר ויזל, אלי ויזל, אלי, 1928־ |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity |
| Other standard no. | 000000008405660X 108176447 Q18391 |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1928-09-30 |
| Death date | 2016-07-02 |
| Place of birth | Sighet (Romania) |
| Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Journalism Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Education Political participation Fiction Education, Higher |
| Affiliation | Boston University City University of New York. City College Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Monowitz (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |
| Profession or occupation | Nobel Prize winners Authors College teachers Human rights workers |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | His Un di velt hot geshvign, 1956. Wiesel, E. Night, 1958: title page (Elie Wiesel) His Zavet, 1987: t.p. (Ėli Vizelʹ) Freshman Convocation, August 22, 1999 [VR] 1999: opening credits (Elie Wiesel, 1986 Nobel Peace prize winner; speaker) OCLC, Jan. 9, 2002: (hdgs.: Wiesel, Elie, 1928- ; Weisel, Elie, 1928- ; usage: Elie Wiesel) BnF Web OPAC, Mar. 13, 2006 (Wiesel, Élie (1928-....); b. Sept. 30, 1928; variant: Wiesel, Eliezer) Wikipedia, Feb. 5, 2013 (a political activist, professor, Nobel Laureate, Holocaust survivor, and author of fiction and nonfiction; born in Sighet, Maramures County, Romania) Academy of Achievement, via WWW, Feb. 5, 2013 (lives in New York City with his wife Marion; writes his books in French) New York times WWW site, viewed July 5, 2016 (in obituary published July 2: Elie Wiesel; b. Eliezer Wiesel, Sept. 30, 1928, Sighet, in what was then Romania; d. Saturday [July 2, 2016], Manhattan, aged 87; Auschwitz survivor who became an eloquent witness for the six million Jews slaughtered in World War II and who, more than anyone else, seared the memory of the Holocaust on the world's conscience. By the sheer force of his personality and his gift for the haunting phrase, Mr. Wiesel, who had been liberated from Buchenwald as a 16-year-old with the indelible tattoo A-7713 on his arm, gradually exhumed the Holocaust from the burial ground of the history books.) LAC internal file, July 10, 2020 (access point: Wiesel, Elie, 1928-; variants: Vizel, Eli, 1928-; Wiesel, Eliezer, 1928-; Wiezel, Eli, 1928-; born September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Maramures County, Romania; lives in New York; writes his books in French; political activist, professor, Nobel Laureate, Holocaust survivor, and author of fiction and nonfiction) |
| National bib agency no. | 1000G1348E |
| Associated language | fre eng |
| Quality code | nlc |
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