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Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of 57 catalogs, written mostly in France and British, including Nights, a work based on his activities as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald attentiveness camps. Along with writing, he was a professor of the humanities at Boston School, which created the Elie Wiesel Middle for Jewish Studies in his honor. He was involved with Jewish causes, and helped establish the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. In his political activities he also campaigned for victims of oppression in places like South Africa and Nicaragua and genocide in Sudan. He publicly condemned the 1915 Armenian genocide and remained a strong defender of individual privileges during his lifetime. He previously been described as "the most important Jew in the us" by the LA Times. Wiesel was honored the Nobel Tranquility Reward in 1986, at which time the Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a "messenger to mankind," proclaiming that through his battle to come to terms with "his own private experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for mankind shown in Hitler's loss of life camps", as well as his "practical work in the cause of tranquility", Wiesel got delivered a message "of tranquility, atonement, and individual dignity" to mankind. He was a founding table member of the brand new York Human Privileges Foundation, and remained energetic throughout his life.
