Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania, on September 30, 1928. The third of four children and the only son. He was educated in Jewish sacred texts. He was taken with his family along with other Jewish prisoners’ military, and they moved to Buchenwald on a forced march of death. Buchenwald was liberated on April 11, 1945, by the United States Army. In 1956 he moved to New York to meet the United Nations and became a citizen of the U.S.A. in 1963. Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize and was a professor at Boston University. He worked much of his adult life in favor of oppressed people. His personal experience of the Holocaust has allowed him to use his talents as a writer , teacher and storyteller to defend human rights and peace throughout the