Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel passes away

Q.  Which Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner has passed away?
- Published on 04 Jul 16

a. Elie Wiesel
b. Elie Kauffman
c. Elie Steedman
d. Elie Carlisle

ANSWER: Elie Wiesel
 
Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel has passed away. The activist and writer who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming the voice of millions of Holocaust victims has died at the age of 87.
  • Romanian born Wiesel lived by the motto in his landmark Holocaust story “to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
  • Peace Prize was awarded to the writer and activist in 1986
  • He also received the Congressional Gold Medal in 1985
  • Wiesel also attended the joint session of the US Congress in 2015 when Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the dangers of Iran’s program
  • Wiesel and his foundation were also victims of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme

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