The Holocaust survivor and former Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel has died aged 87.<br /><br /> Born in Romania, after his wartime experiences he became a journalist and then an author, activist and academic, writing extensively of his imprisonment in Nazi camps.<br /><br /> The news of his death was announced by Israel’s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem.<br /><br /> Wiesel won the Nobel prize in 1986, the committee calling him a “messenger to mankind”.<br /><br /> His book “Night” which sold millions of copies, described his experiences at Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.<br /><br /> In 2009 he accompanied President Obama to Buchenwald, where an estimated 56,000 people, mostly Jews, were killed.<br /><br /> The World Jewish Congress praised Wiesel as a “beacon of light” who always fought injustice.<br />
