Elie Wiesel, messenger for peace
By: Heather Lehr Wagner.
Series: Modern peacemakers
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780791092200
Subjects: Wiesel, Elie, -- 1928-; Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography.; Jewish authors -- Biography.; Holocaust survivors -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Profiles the French author and Holocaust survivor who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his fiction and nonfiction writing on the subject and his work on the United States' President's Commission on the Holocaust.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-106) and index.
Table of contents: title: A time of darkness; title: Childhood in Sighet; title: Into the night; title: Prisoner at Auschwitz; title: Refugee in France; title: An accidental American; title: A new sense of hope; title: Winner of the Nobel Prize; title: Human rights activist.