Elie Wiesel at the 2012 Time 100 gala.

This sign is in the United States’ first Nobel Peace Park located in Eugene, Oregon. This park is a one-acre area inside Alton Baker Park dedicated to celebrating American recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. (www.oregonlive.com/travel/index.ssf/2013/04/eugene_to_ded...)

The Tree of Life in the Name of Elie Wiesel

The Tree of Life in the Name of Elie Wiesel

Edmund Phelps, Joseph Stiglitz, Shimon Peres, Elie Wiesel.

President Barack Obama tours the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., with Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor, and Sara Bloomfield, museum director, April 23, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

President Barack Obama tours the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., with Sara Bloomfield, museum director, and Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor, April 23, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel and his wife Marion at the 2012 Time 100 gala.

Kofi Annan and Sergey Bermeniev with portrait of Elie Wiesel