He was one of the survivors of the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel, the prolific Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose memoir about surviving Nazi concentration camps became world class around the globe, has died at the age of 87.
Wiesel’s son, Elisha Wiesel, told NBC News on Saturday that his father had died, and said the family is observing Shabbat and has requested privacy at the moment.

He was born in 1928 in Romania, was forced in May 1944 into Auschwitz during the time the Nazi were controlling Germany, there he watched as his sick, malnourished father Shlomo Wiesel,died he was beaten by a German soldier. He wrote his experience,including the deaths of his mother and younger sister during the Holocaust, in his acclaimed 1955 autobiography, “Night.” The atrocities he witnessed fueled Wiesel to combat inhumanity around the world, including in the former Yugoslavia and in Darfur — efforts that in 1986, earned him a Nobel Peace Prize.
“We must speak, we must take sides, for neutrality helps the oppressor — never the victim,” he said upon receiving the prize”.
His death has brought shock to the world as tributes continue to pour in, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called him a “beacon of light to the humanity of people who believed in the good of everyone.”
Also a statement from the World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder said Wiesel “was more than a revered writer. He was also a teacher for many of us. He taught us about the horrors of Auschwitz. He taught us about Judaism, about Israel, and about not being silent in the face of injustice.
Not too long ago, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, had given Wiesel the medal of Honorary Citizen of Jerusalem, in which he said about the recipient: “Instead of giving in to despair, the face of evil and cruelty that at the time was the darkest of humanity, he carried all the way through the message of tolerance and peace for all peoples of the world. May this strong apostle of hope and peace rest in peace.

Source: http://www.naijasilvergold.com/blog/2016/07/02/nobel-laureate-and-holocaust-survivor-elie-wiesel-dies-at-87/

You are man of unseen strenght, i learnt one thing from you never to be neutral in the face of injustice. Wish you a peaceful transition as you journey to meet your maker
RIP.