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Elie Wiesel - Facts

Born: 30 September 1928, Sighet, Romania

Residence at the time of the award:USA

Role: Chairman of "The President's Commission on the Holocaust"

Field: human rights, humanitarian work

"The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference"

Eye-Witness and Messenger

The Jewish author, philosopher and humanist Elie Wiesel has made it his life's work to bear witness to the genocide committed by the Nazis during World War II. Today he is the world's leading spokesman on the Holocaust.

After Hitler's forces had moved into Hungary in 1944, the Wiesel family was deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland. Elie Wiesel's mother and younger sister perished in the gas chamber there. In 1945 Elie and his father were sent on to Buchenwald, where his father died of starvation and dysentery. Seventeen-year-old Elie was still alive when American soldiers opened the camp.

For the world to remember and learn from the Holocaust is not Elie Wiesel's only goal. It is equally important to fight indifference and the attitude that "it's no concern of mine". Elie Wiesel sees the struggle against indifference as a struggle for peace. In his words, "The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference".

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I believe Elie Wiesel deserved that Nobel Prize; he didn't give up because all his suffering, instead he made something good out of it. He wants to let the world know that indifference is that worst attitude a human has. Indifference makes people not wanting to help each other. He deserves that Nobel Prize because he wants to fight for peace, but how is he going to fight peace if humans have indifference to each other? Elie Wiesel deserves that Nobel Peace Prize because if he and each us fight against indifference we can find peace.