Elie Wiesel 80th Birthday Celebration

Join Us Thursday, October 2, 2008, from 4:00 P.M. to 5:30 P.M. in the Auditorium at 120 West 106th Street in Manhattan.

Elie Wiesel was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz during the Holocaust. After the war, Elie Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps. The result was his internationally acclaimed memoir, “Night,” which has since been translated into more than thirty languages.  In 1978, he was appointed Chairman of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust, and in 1980, he became the Founding Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He has received more than 100 honorary degrees from institutions of higher learning and is a devoted supporter of Israel.  He is the author of more than forty books of fiction and non-fiction.  For his literary and human rights activities, he has received numerous awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal and the Medal of Liberty Award, and the rank of Grand-Croix in the French Legion of Honor. In 1986, Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Prize for Peace, and soon after, Marion and Elie Wiesel established The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.

This special event, part of Jewish Home Lifecare’s 92nd Street Y Lecture Series, is open to the community. Refreshments will be available.

For more information and to RSVP, please contact:
 
Ellen Goldstein-Hicklen at (212) 870-5037 (email: egoldstein@jhha.org) or Joy Haas at (212) 870-4618 (email: jhaas@jhha.org)

This program is made possible by the generous support of The Joan Jacobson 92nd Street Y Satellite Program Fund of the Jewish Home & Hospital Foundation.