Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel, Author, Nobel Prize winner

The Nobel Peace Prize winner has written and spoken candidly throughout his life about the desolation he endured in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. His bestselling memoir, Night, exposed not only his suffering at the hands of Nazi Germany, but also his tormented relationship with a God that could have permitted such horrors.

In early 2009, the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, the nonprofit through which Wiesel conducted much of his advocacy and peacemaking work, announced it had lost more than $15 million dollars to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme. The Wiesels also lost their life savings to the discredited financier. In an interview with On Faith's Sally Quinn, Wiesel talks about losing "everything" for the second time in his life.

"We were devastated on every level," Madoff said in the interview with Quinn. Watch Wiesel explain how he came to terms with Madoff - and with God.

Elie Weisel

Links:
The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
Night, by Elie Wiesel
Portfolio profile of Wiesel after Madoff

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