Elie was 15 when he was taken to the death camps in the book that he wrote called Night.
It is about the Holocaust during World War 2 - about Hitler"s "Final Solution", which was to annihilate all Jews. He sent them to extermination camps. where they were either gassed or worked to...
He is fifty years old when they are marched to Auschwitz. BUT he tells the officers of the camp that he is forty.
At 1954, Eliezer Wiesel decided to write a book about the holocaust, and "Night" finally gets published in 1958.
Nobel Peace Prize.
It was published in 1960.