Elie Wiesel

Born Sighet, Romania

"Never again." Elie Wiesel embodies the necessity of bearing continual witness against the Holocaust so that future genocides might be prevented. Prisoner number A-7713, Wiesel survived the concentration camps and wrote a powerful memoir, Night (1960), in an attempt to convey the nightmare of the camps to the world. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, both for his testimony about the Holocaust and his work for peace and human dignity.