Elie Wiesel's father was a shopkeeper and owned a grocery store in their hometown of Sighet, Romania.
Elie Wiesel is currently living in New York City.
The gypsy struck Elie Wiesel's father because he asked where the toilets were.
Elie Wisel father's name Chlomo or Shlomo Wiesel
Yes, Elie Wiesel, the author and Holocaust survivor, was a father. He had one son named Elisha Wiesel.
His name is Shlomo. It isn't used in the book till the very end.
The guards took Elie Wiesel's father to the crematorium at Auschwitz concentration camp. They were separated during a selection process, and Elie later found out that his father had been sent to be killed.
Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania in the Carpathian Mountains. His father's name was Shlomo Wiesel and his mother's name was Sarah Feig.
Elie Wiesel looses his father, mother, sisters, and childhood.
Elie Wiesel's father did not die during the death march. He died after the death march, in Buchenwald. He died from dysentery (also, starvation and exhaustion). In Night, Elie said that his father was suffering from dysentery, and had kept asking for water, when one of the guards hit him over the head with a truncheon, and by morning he was dead.
Elie Wiesel's father's name was Shlomo.
As of December 21, 2008, Elie Wiesel is still living in New York City.
Shlomo Wiesel, the father of Elie Wiesel, died in 1943 while both were imprisoned in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.