Elie Wiesel, writer and Nobel Peace Prize winner has passed away at the age of 87, according to the Yad Vashem memorial and other news agencies He was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 at the age of 15 but managed to survive. This is a link to the Elie Wiesel Foundation website: http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/eliewiesel.aspx
