The book received recommendations from Elie Wiesel who wrote in The New York Times Book Review that it was " one of the best ...

While these groups elevated Antonescu to the status of hero, his involvement in the Holocaust was officially reasserted and condemned following the 2003 Wiesel Commission report.

During the visit Elie Wiesel, who together with Bertrand Herz was send to Little camp as 16-year old boys, said, " if these trees could talk.

His thesis, defended in 1970 and supervised by Torsten Wiesel, was titled Insect Retinas: Information processing in the compound eye.

Roger Wolcott Sperry ( August 20, 1913 – April 17, 1994 ) was a neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and Nobel laureate who, together with David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work with split-brain research.

However, perhaps his greatest prize was his achievement in attaining the Nobel Prize in cooperation with David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel for Physiology or Medicine.

The play is based on an actual trial Wiesel participated in that was conducted by inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Nazi holocaust, but it also references a number of other incidents in Jewish history including a similar trial conducted by the Hasidic Rabbi Levi Yosef Yitzhak of Berdichev:

" Ehud Olmert was reported to be considering offering the presidency to another non-Israeli, Elie Wiesel, but he was said to be " very not interested ".

* Tom Rack – Elie Wiesel, Jewish writer, Holocaust survivor, professor who was critical of Reagan's visit to Bitburg, Germany to visit a cemetery in which some SS soldiers were buried

" He was a hero for thousands of people, and it ’ s simply unfair to do that to his name and to him ," Wiesel said.

Wiesel said he was returning the honor because he could not " accept being placed on the same level " as Tudor and fellow party member ( and honor recipient ) Gheorghe Buzatu.

Wiesel was working at the time as a United Nations correspondent for Israeli newspapers and the Jewish Daily Forward in New York.

It was republished with a new translation by Wiesel's wife, Marion, and a new preface by Wiesel, and by February 13 that year, it was no.

Naomi Seidman, professor of Jewish culture at the Graduate Theological Union, wrote a comparative analysis of the Yiddish and French texts for a 1996 article in Jewish Social Studies, concluding that Night transforms the Holocaust into a religious event, the abdication of God, with the witness both priest and prophet ; Wiesel himself said that Auschwitz was as important as Mount Sinai.

Seidman argues that there was not one Holocaust survivor in Night, but two — a Yiddish and a French — a view that Holocaust deniers have exploited to imply that Wiesel has not been truthful about some of the scenes.

" But Naomi Seidman notes — as does Wiesel in All Rivers Run to the Sea — that Mark Turkov, Wiesel's publisher in Argentina, was given the Yiddish manuscript in 1954, one year before Wiesel's meeting with Mauriac.

In Rivers, Wiesel writes that the first version of Night was written on a boat en route to Brazil in 1954, and that he handed the original 862-page manuscript to Turkov on the boat.

According to the filmmaker Agnieszka Piotrowska, the novel was " described by Arthur Miller and Elie Wiesel as one of the most important books in the so-called Holocaust literature.

" Wiesel wrote in The New York Times Book Review that it was: " One of the best ...

Norman Finkelstein, former professor of political science at DePaul University, wrote in The Holocaust Industry: " Long after Kosiński was exposed as a consummate literary hoaxer, Wiesel continued to heap encomiums on his " remarkable body of work.

In a similar case, former German chancellor Helmut Kohl was criticised by writers Günter Grass and Elie Wiesel for visiting the war cemetery at Bitburg ( in the company of Ronald Reagan ) which also contained the bodies of SS troops.

Wiesel was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1924, the youngest of five children.

In December 2004, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel returned the Steaua României medal, one of the country's highest honors, after President Ion Iliescu awarded Tudor the same honor in the last days of his presidency.

For example, in the Yiddish, Wiesel writes that, after liberation, some of the male camp survivors run off to " fargvaldikn daytshe shikses " (" rape German shiksas "), whereas in the French, they " coucher avec les filles " (" sleep with girls ").

In a follow-up experiment, Hubel and Wiesel ( 1963 ) explored the cortical responses present in kittens after binocular deprivation ; they found it difficult to find any active cells in the cortex, and the responses they did get were either slow-moving or fast-fatiguing.

Hubel and Wiesel had demonstrated that ocular dominance columns in the lowest neocortical visual area, V1, were largely immutable after the critical period in development.

In an interview, author Elie Wiesel described attending a White House meeting of Jewish leaders about the trip:

A Wiesel equipped with a TOW deploys from a CH-53

This trend has had limited uptake in Western forces with only Germany equipping their airmobile division with the similar Wiesel tankette two of which can be carried inside a Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter.

* Transcript of interview with Elie Wiesel

In September of the same year, he spoke to the UN Security Council with Nobel Prize-winner Elie Wiesel to ask the UN to find a solution to the conflict and to help the people of Darfur.

Each battalion of Jäger, Fallschirmjäger and Gebirgsjäger has a " heavy company " of Wiesel weapon-carriers equipped with 20 mm cannon, TOW launchers or 120 mm mortars.

The 1990s saw the renaissance of a similar concept with the Wiesel of the German Bundeswehr being introduced to provide airborne troops with armoured reconnaissance capability, a function that had already been trialled with Soviet T-27 in World War II.

Current collaborations include flautist Abbie de Quant ( since 1970 ), Duo 4 with pianist Meir Wiesel, the Tamar Piano Trio and ensembles with vocalists such as Bat-Sheva Zeisler and Shimrit Carmi.

Suchar stated he opposed tenure because Finkelstein's " personal and reputation demeaning attacks on Alan Dershowitz, Benny Morris, and the holocaust authors Eli Wiesel and Jerzy Kosinski " were inconsistent with DePaul's " Vincentian " values.

It sold 1, 046 copies over the next 18 months, at $ 3 a copy, but it attracted interest from reviewers, leading to television interviews with Wiesel and meetings with literary figures like Saul Bellow.

Wiesel wrote in the 1956 Yiddish version: " We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God.

She told The Jewish Daily Forward that, in re-writing rather than simply translating Un di Velt Hot Geshvign, Wiesel had replaced an angry survivor who regards " testimony as a refutation of what the Nazis did to the Jews ," with one " haunted by death, whose primary complaint is directed against God, not the world, the Nazis.

Seidman writes that Wiesel may have suppressed the desire for vengeance on the advice of Mauriac, a Roman Catholic.

In June 2010, Holocaust survivor and human rights activist Elie Wiesel began a campaign to raise awareness of the Khodorkovsky trial and advocate for his release.

Wiesel began a fellowship in ophthalmology, and in 1958 he became an assistant professor.

In 1958, he moved to Johns Hopkins and began his collaborations with Wiesel, and discovered orientation selectivity and columnar organization in visual cortex.