Elie Wiesel

Definitions of Elie Wiesel
  1. noun
    United States writer (born in Romania) who survived Nazi concentration camps and is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust (born in 1928)
    synonyms: Eliezer Wiesel, Wiesel
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    historian, historiographer
    a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
    author, writer
    a person who writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
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