Nobel peace prize laureate Elie Wiesel passed away

Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate passed away on 2 July 2016 in New York, U.S. He was 87.
•    In his first book, Night, Wiesel gave an account of his family being sent to the Nazi concentration camps.
•    Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor and political activist.
•    He wrote mostly in French and English.
•    He was the author of 57 books, including Night, in which he shared his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
•    He was also involved with Jewish causes and helped establish the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
•    He had been described as the most important Jew in America by the Los Angeles Times.
•    In 1986, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
•    Elie Wiesel was only 15 years old when he was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland with his family in 1944.
•    After they were sent to Auschwitz, his mother and his younger sister were killed.
•    Wiesel and his father were later deported to the concentration camp at Buchenwald.
•    After they were taken to Buchenwald, his father only survived for eight months, dying just a few weeks before the camp was liberated.
•    In his book Night, Wiesel recalled the shame he felt when he heard his father being beaten and was unable to help.
•    He was tattooed with inmate number A-7713 on his left arm.
•    The camp was liberated by the U.S. Third Army on 11 April 1945.