New documentary on Holocaust survivor "Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire" to be shown at Central Mass. Jewish Film Fest.

Here is a look at the life of Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel. Personal Birth date: September 30, 1928 Death date: July 2, 2016 Birth place: Sighet, Transylvania (now Romania) Birth name: ...

Wiesel’s mother and youngest sister died at Auschwitz. His two older sisters ... photograph taken at Buchenwald of male prisoners in bunk beds. Early in his career, Wiesel wrote for French ...

At Auschwitz, Anne’s long hair was clipped and ... Margot was in a coma for several days and was found, fallen from her bunk, dead. Anne was so sick that no one told her of Margot’s fate.

There were bigger bunks and more blankets ... Nobody else, she figured, had managed to bring gold into Auschwitz and bring it out. She is survived by her sister Piri Engelman, two of her three ...

Fürst and his family arrived at the entrance to Auschwitz on Nov. 3, 1944 — one day after Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the cessation of the use of the gas chambers ahea ...