About Elie Wiesel
His best‑known work, Night, tells the story of his time as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald camps during the Holocaust.
Awards & Honors
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Nobel Peace Prize
Prix Médicis
Congressional Gold Medal
Light of Truth Award
Freedom Award
National Humanities Medal
Prix du Livre Inter
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Norman Mailer Prize
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Lucien Barrière Literary Award
Four Freedoms Award – Freedom of Worship
Medal of Liberty
Honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain
doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University
Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Romania
Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva
honorary doctor of the Bar-Ilan University
honorary doctor of Tel Aviv University
honorary doctorate of Haifa University
honorary doctorate of the Weizmann Institute of Science
Bordin Prize
honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University
honorary doctor of the University of Picardie Jules Verne
honorary citizen of Jerusalem
honorary doctor of the Florida Atlantic University
honorary doctor of the University of Miami
Great Immigrants Award
Grand Prix littéraire de la Ville de Paris
honorary degree from Spelman College
honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
![“I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c39/elie-wiesel-341_crosses_i-have-a-tremendous-respect-for-professo_1096229.png)
![“We're both [with Elie Wiesel] a long way from the position of the so-called Biblical minimalists. Some of them see no history in the Bible until Josiah.” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9fa/elie-wiesel-341_bible_we-re-both-with-elie-wiesel-a-long-way-f_1724153.png)
![“Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest somehow found it [2 Kings 22:8].” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d5d/elie-wiesel-341_book_josiah-has-a-tremendous-reputation-in-th_2081503.png)
![“It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably.” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8ae/elie-wiesel-341_committed_it-s-not-a-weapon-governments-don-t-kill_3154322.png)
![“I remember one day I came home and shouted to my grandmother, "Grandma, Sarah is pregnant!" Poor Sarah! For weeks before I had read how difficult it was for her to get pregnant. "Grandma! I have news for you!" "What did you learn?" "I have news, Grandma: Sarah is pregnant!" [Genesis 16 - 21].” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3d8/elie-wiesel-341_difficult_i-remember-one-day-i-came-home-and-shout_183180.png)
![“[The Book of the Law]was lost for so many years. And then Josiah decided to celebrate Passover. The text says that "The Passover sacrifice had not been offered in that way ... during the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah" [2 Kings 23:22]. What do you mean? Not in the days of David…” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1d4/elie-wiesel-341_book_the-book-of-the-law-was-lost-for-so-many_1777453.png)
![“If enough people are sensitive to the tragedy of Tibet, I think it will produce a change politically as well. But furthermore, it's important for the people in Tibet. Now communication is such [that] people know what is happening. Even Tibetan people would know that the Interfaith or the…” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4fe/elie-wiesel-341_causes_if-enough-people-are-sensitive-to-the-tr_238075.jpg)
