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Wiesel is an author, political activist, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. At age 16, he was imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, where his family perished. After the war, he studied at the Sorbonne and later settled in the US. His extensive works, including his most famous novel, Night, focus on keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive. For years after the war, however, Wiesel refused to write about his experiences. What encounter changed his mind?