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Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Romania and grew up in a tumultuous and violent time in Europe during World War II. His family was sent to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, where his father died of starvation. After his release, Wiesel studied in Paris and published La Nuit, a memoir about his time at the concentration camps. He became one of the most important international voices on the Holocaust and believed that it was necessary to keep the memory of concentration camps alive as a warning against public indifference to evil. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.