Elie Wiesel was one of the most influ­en­tial voic­es for remem­ber­ing and under­stand­ing the Holo­caust. A Nobel Lau­re­ate, he was the author of more than fifty books, includ­ing Night, a work based on his expe­ri­ences as a pris­on­er in Auschwitz and Buchen­wald. He died in 2016, at the age of eighty-seven.