Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel dies aged 87
The Holocaust survivor and Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel has died aged 87.
He died in the US, where he lived and had been a citizen since the 1960s.
He became famous after writing about his experiences as a teenager in Nazi concentration camps, he lost his mother, father and younger sister in the camps.
Elie Wiesel dedicated his life to ensuring the atrocities committed under the Nazis were never forgotten, and the president of the World Jewish Congress has called him "a beacon of light".
Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust remembrance centre announced his death on Saturday.
Elie Wiesel was born in Romania in 1928. In 1940 his town, Sighet, was part of a region that was annexed by Hungary. Four years later the town's entire Jewish population, including 15-year-old Elie and his family, was deported to Auschwitz.
Mr Wiesel leaves a wife, Marion, who also survived the Holocaust, as well as a son, Elisha.
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