The Elie Wiesel Foundation

10/19/2026

England and Wales reported a 10% rise in police-recorded antisemitic hate crimes.
3,162 offences were recorded in the year ending March 2026.

More than 80 years after the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel was still asking why antisemitism had survived.

In a 2004 interview, Wiesel reflected on his belief that Auschwitz would put an end to hatred of the Jewish people.
He was wrong.

“The victims died but the haters are still here. New ones.”

He also warned that hostility toward Israel could cross the line into antisemitism.
These were not abstract concerns. Wiesel had spent his life confronting the consequences of hatred, and he understood that remembering history was not enough if people failed to learn from it.

His answer was education. His response to injustice was to speak up.
The latest figures are a reminder that antisemitism is not simply a prejudice from the past. It remains a problem that demands our attention today.

Remembering Elie Wiesel means taking his warnings seriously, recognizing hatred when it appears, and refusing to stay silent.

10/18/2026

Forty years ago, Elie Wiesel stood before the world in Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize and insist that every person has a responsibility to act. On December 9 this year, the eve of that anniversary, The Elie Wiesel Foundation will bring that conviction to The Town Hall in New York City with One Light, Many Flames, a Chanukah concert celebrating the diversity of Israel and the Jewish people, and supporting young people who will carry his legacy forward.

The evening will feature The Idan Raichel Project, Ravid Kahalani, Eden Golan and Yuval Raphael, with special guests Shaggy and Matisyahu and Nuseir Yassin as emcee. Bringing Jewish audiences and non-Jewish allies together, the concert will turn a milestone of remembrance into an investment in education, connection and the next generation.

Proceeds will benefit The Foundation’s Beit Tzipora Centers in Israel. They will also expand educational exchanges that connect American students reading Night with young Israelis whose lives are part of Elie and Marion Wiesel’s enduring legacy.

“Forty years ago, I sat in Oslo and watched the hope on my father’s face as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize and reminded the world that we must always take sides because neutrality helps the oppressor. Today, that mandate is more urgent than ever. Through the ‘One Light, Many Flames’ concert and our work through Beit Tzipora, we aren’t just preserving my parents’ memory. We are putting it into action, celebrating the vibrant diversity of our people, and ensuring that the next generation has the moral courage to stand up and be counted,” said Elisha Wiesel, Chair of The Elie Wiesel Foundation.

Elie Wiesel received the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 1986. Forty years later, the Foundation’s invitation is both a celebration and a call to participation: come together, encounter the diverse voices of Israel to whom Elie and Marion were so deeply committed, and help the next generation carry their legacy into the future.

Save the date : December 9th, 8pm at the Town Hall in New York

You can find more information on the link in bio

10/14/2026

Save the date : December 9th, 8pm in New York

Forty years ago, Elie Wiesel stood before the world in Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize and insist that every person has a responsibility to act. On December 9, the eve of that anniversary, The Elie Wiesel Foundation will bring that conviction to The Town Hall in New York City with One Light, Many Flames, a Chanukah concert celebrating the diversity of Israel and the Jewish people, and supporting young people who will carry his legacy forward.

The evening will feature The Idan Raichel Project, Ravid Kahalani, Eden Golan and Yuval Raphael, with special guests Shaggy and Matisyahu and Nuseir Yassin as emcee. Bringing Jewish audiences and non-Jewish allies together, the concert will turn a milestone of remembrance into an investment in education, connection and the next generation.

Proceeds will benefit The Foundation’s Beit Tzipora Centers in Israel. They will also expand educational exchanges that connect American students reading Night with young Israelis whose lives are part of Elie and Marion Wiesel’s enduring legacy.

“Forty years ago, I sat in Oslo and watched the hope on my father’s face as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize and reminded the world that we must always take sides because neutrality helps the oppressor. Today, that mandate is more urgent than ever. Through the ‘One Light, Many Flames’ concert and our work through Beit Tzipora, we aren’t just preserving my parents’ memory. We are putting it into action, celebrating the vibrant diversity of our people, and ensuring that the next generation has the moral courage to stand up and be counted,” said Elisha Wiesel, Chair of The Elie Wiesel Foundation.

You can find more information on the link in bio

10/09/2026

Sharing powerful words from our Chairman, Elisha Wiesel.

My father, Elie Wiesel, received the Nobel Peace Prize for ensuring the Holocaust wouldn’t be forgotten. By honoring Navi Pillay, who accused Israel of genocide, the committee has betrayed his legacy.

10/07/2026

3 years ago today
More than 1,000 people
were k*lled in Israel in a single day.

Hamas terr*rists r*ped victims in broad daylight
And took over 250 people hostage,
including Jews and Arabs

The next day
people started calling those same Hamas terr*rists
"freedom fighters"

Others would tear down posters in the street
of the hostages
Trying to erase the pain and horrors Israelis were dealing with

Elie Wiesel spent his life
warning us about what happens
when the world stops seeing human suffering
And starts dehumanizing Jews

He wanted us to
Keep remembering the past.

To protect our future

So today,
we remember October 7th, 2023

We remember the people
who were k*lled.
The atrocities that were committed
the families whose lives changed forever.

And how people tried to erase our pain

It is our duty to protect their memory,

Because remembering the dead
also means protecting the humanity and dignity of the living.

10/06/2026

This weekend, Britain’s Green Party voted to adopt a motion declaring “Zionism is racism.”

Twenty-five years ago, Elie Wiesel confronted the same idea in the lead-up to the UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban.

Wiesel was invited to take part in the conference.

He initially accepted.

Then he read the material being prepared for it, and withdrew.

Because what was supposed to be a gathering against racism had become consumed by hostility toward Israel and, especially at the parallel NGO forum, became openly antisemitic. Wiesel warned that a conference created to fight hatred was becoming a “conference of hatred.”

Wiesel later recalled telling UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan that Durban would become an embarrassment to the United Nations. After the conference, Annan sent him a simple message:

“Elie, you were right.”

Three years later, Annan publicly acknowledged that the United Nations’ record on antisemitism had fallen short of its own ideals.

For that reason, it is shameful that 25 years later, the UN is still commemorating Durban.

And when Britain’s Green Party votes to declare that “Zionism is racism,” it's a disgrace.

Because a movement that claims to fight hatred loses all credibility when it makes room for another form of hatred, called antisemitism.

09/30/2026

What happens when you lose
your own birth date?

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928,
in Sighet, Romania.

But the tragedies he faced in his lifetime
Kept affecting his date of birth on official documents

When Elie was 12,
Jews from his hometown were being deported.

German officers took his citizenship papers
and tore them up.

Three years later,
Elie and his family were deported to Auschwitz.

He was 15.
But when he arrived,
another prisoner advised him to say he's 18.

Because at 15,
he could be sent to his death.

But if he lied about his age,
He had a chance to survive

Camp officials kept changing his identity.

His name was no more Elie
It was A-7713

After the war
Elie transited across orphanages,
administrators occasionally approximated ages for young survivors

Which could lead to clerical errors in official documents

But Elie knew it was important to mark his birthday each year
despite how hard the N***s tried to take it away from him

Today, we mark September 30 as Elie Wiesel’s birthday.
Behind that date is a lifetime spent making sure
people, stories and memories could not simply be erased.

09/30/2026

"In 1966, Elie Wiesel went behind the Iron Curtain to see whether Jewish life was disappearing.

The Soviet government had spent decades suppressing Jewish religious and cultural life. Young Jews had little access to Hebrew, Jewish education, books, or organized Jewish life.

Wiesel arrived in Moscow on the sixth day of Sukkot but what he found was the opposite of what he might have expected.

As Sukkot gave way to Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, tens of thousands of young Soviet Jews gathered outside Moscow's Central Synagogue. They sang. They danced. Some barely knew the prayers or even what was written in the Torah they were kissing. Wiesel describes one young man who didn't really know why he'd come.
At one point students held burning newspapers like torches and began chanting in Hebrew and Russian:

“The people of Israel live! Am Yisrael Chai!”

For Wiesel, that was the revelation. The Soviet system had deprived these young people of Jewish education, but it had failed to erase their Jewish identity. He returned home convinced that Soviet Jewish life wasn't dying, on the contrary it was awakening."