Elie Wiesel Photograph with Signature

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.384

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Date

6-1999

Files

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Description

Image of Elie Wiesel with book in hand; handwritten note, 'For Paul Lorenzen - with best wishes Elie Wiesel' in blue ink.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Congressional Medal of Honor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, author of numerous works informed by his experiences in concentration camps. Elie Wiesel was born to a religious family in Sighet Romania. He was sent to Auschwitz along with his father, mother and three sisters. His mother and sisters were murdered in the gas chambers upon arrival. Transferred with his father to Buchenwald, his father perished. Wiesel promoted human rights and remembrance of the Holocaust throughout his life.

Dimensions

11 x 8 1/2"

Keywords

Wiesel, autograph, signature, Pre-Holocaust, Pre-War

Subcollection

Post

Recommended Citation

"Elie Wiesel Photograph with Signature" (1999). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.384.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1328