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    Elie Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor who was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp during WWII but survived. After the war, he worked as a journalist but refused to write about his experiences for 10 years until his friend convinced him. He then wrote a memoir and later published Night, which had trouble finding a publisher initially. Wiesel went on to write 47 books, win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, and establish the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity to promote human rights. He became an advocate for Holocaust remembrance and speaking out against violence and racism.

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    Elie Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor who was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp during WWII but survived. After the war, he worked as a journalist but refused to write about his experiences for 10 years until his friend convinced him. He then wrote a memoir and later published Night, which had trouble finding a publisher initially. Wiesel went on to write 47 books, win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, and establish the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity to promote human rights. He became an advocate for Holocaust remembrance and speaking out against violence and racism.

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    Elie Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor who was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp during WWII but survived. After the war, he worked as a journalist but refused to write about his experiences for 10 years until his friend convinced him. He then wrote a memoir and later published Night, which had trouble finding a publisher initially. Wiesel went on to write 47 books, win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, and establish the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity to promote human rights. He became an advocate for Holocaust remembrance and speaking out against violence and racism.

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    Elie Wiesel

    Elie Wiesel is a man who has been through horrible things. During WWII, many
    Jews were sent to concentration camps for working until they died. Elie was one
    of this men. He was sent to the biggest extermination camp called Auschwitz,
    but he survived. He went through the same things as a lot of people did, but he
    lived to tell his story.
    After the war ended, Elie taught Hebrew and worked as a choirmaster. He later
    become a professional journalist. He wrote for Israeli and French newspapers.
    In 1948 he became involved with the Irgun, translating articles from Hebrew to
    Yiddish for its periodicals. In 1949, he traveled to Israel to work for a French
    newspaper, and after he moved to France to work for an Israeli newspaper.
    For ten years after the war, Elie refused to write about what he went through
    during the Holocaust. But his closest friend, Francois Mauriac, convinced him to
    write about his experiences. He first wrote a 900-page memoir And the World
    Remained Silent, which was published in Buenos Aires. After that he rewrote a
    shortened version in French called La Nuit, in English called Night.
    Elie had a lot of trouble finding a publisher for his book, so during the first years
    only few copies were sold. But in 1960 a man called Arthur Wang agreed to pay
    for Elies book and published it in the United States in September that year as
    Night.
    In 1995 he moved to Washington D.C and became a U.S citizen. He married his
    wife Marion and had a son called Elisha. In the U.S, Elie wrote about 47 books
    and won many literary prizes. His writing is considered among the most
    important in Holocaust literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1986 for

    speaking against violence, repression, and racism. He has received many other
    prizes and honors for his work, including the Congressional Gold Medal in 1985,
    the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and The International Center in New Yorks
    Award of Excellence.
    Elie and his wife started the Elie Wiesel foundation for Humanity. He served as
    chairman for the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust from 1978 to 1986.
    He has become a popular speaker in the Holocaust subject.
    In 2002, he inaugurated the Elie Wiesel Memorial House in Sighet, in his
    childhood home. In 2006 he traveled to Auschwitz with Oprah Winfrey for The
    Oprah Winfrey Show on May 24, 2006. He said that that this was most likely his
    last trip there.

    John Green was borned August 24, 1977 in Indianopolis, Indiana, USA. His
    parents are Mike and Sydney Green. He attended Lake Highland Preparatory
    School. In 2000 he graduated from Kenyon College. His first book was
    publishen in 2005. It was called Looking for Alaska. Green lived for several
    years in Chicago, where he worked for the book review journal Booklist as a
    publishing assistant and production editor while writing Looking for Alaska.

    In 2008, Green's third novel, Paper Towns, debuted at number five on The New York
    Times Best Seller list for children's books. He now lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with
    his wife, Sarah Urist Green, whom he married on May 21, 2006

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