The Elie Wiesel Foundation

The Elie Wiesel Foundation The Foundation's mission, rooted in the memory of the Holocaust, is to combat ignorance, intolerance and injustice.

Elie Wiesel and his wife, Marion, established The Elie Wiesel Foundation soon after he was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace. The Foundation's mission, rooted in the memory of the Holocaust, is to combat indifference, intolerance and injustice through international dialogue and youth-focused programs that promote acceptance, understanding and equality. In Israel, the Foundation operates two B

eit Tzipora Centers for Study and Enrichment, which enroll close to 1,000 boys and girls in after-school programs. These Centers, in Ashkelon and Kiryat Malachi, focus on educating the Ethiopian-Jewish community and giving Ethiopian-Israeli students the opportunity to participate fully in Israeli society. In the United States, the Foundation offers the Prize in Ethics Essay Contest which challenges college juniors and seniors to analyze the urgent ethical issues confronting them in today's complex world. Internationally, the Foundation’s Nobel Conferences serve as a catalyst for change. In 2014, the Foundation held our Tomorrow’s Leaders Conference in Dublin, Ireland, where students from across the globe joined together in a discussion of ethics in today’s world.

06/01/2026

The Elie Wiesel Foundation and are proud to come together in shared commitment to uplift LGBTQ+ belonging. Keshet is a national leader working to ensure that LGBTQ+ Jews and their families can live with full equality, justice, and dignity. To support Keshet’s mission with a donation, go to http://keshetonline.org/donate/

05/31/2026

Today, we proudly march! 🇮🇱

We owe a debt of gratitude to Haim Zohar, Dr. Alvin Schiff, Dan Ronen, and so many more phenomenal voices who worked to create a space for the Jewish community in NYC. But we are especially grateful to a lifelong friend of Elie’s who we lost just last year at the age of 100, the legendary Ted Comet. In his book All Rivers Run To The Sea, Elie described Ted as a “smiling young American Jew” who came to volunteer at the orphanage where Elie stayed after being liberated. Ted’s legacy lives on through this parade, and being able to attend gives us enormous joy.

05/29/2026
05/28/2026

Imagine having your cultural dances outlawed…
The Khmer Rouge regime tried to erase Cambodian culture. As Sophiline’s story shows, Cambodian traditional dance is an important medium for telling the stories that the regime tried to silence. Preserving these mediums of expression aids us in remembrance work.

05/27/2026

Eid Mubarak!

05/21/2026

Happy Shavuot to all who are celebrating! What do you hope to learn more about this year?

05/20/2026

Before he became a Nobel Laureate and spoke to presidents, Elie Wiesel was an immigrant.

After World War II ended, he spent years living as a stateless refugee in France along with hundreds of thousands of other survivors. In 1956, he arrived in the United States as a journalist, and as you’ll see in the video, things were far from easy...

When Elie became an American citizen, he never forgot what it meant to arrive in a country as someone displaced, vulnerable, and dependent on the compassion of strangers. These memories shaped how he spoke about immigration throughout his life, and how he advocated for others.

05/20/2026

This Cambodian Remembrance Day, we mourn the lives lost under the Khmer Rouge.

In 1980, Elie Wiesel visited refugee camps along the Thai border with Cambodia as part of a delegation called the "March for Survival". At that time, many people in the west remained ignorant of the horrors of the Khmer Rouge. Worse still were those who attempted to deny them. By visiting the refugee camps, Elie showed the world that this was a tragedy which required immediate moral action.

On May 18, 2026, at the 92NY Gala “Sharing the Light” in New York City, The Elie Wiesel Foundation proudly joined in hon...
05/19/2026

On May 18, 2026, at the 92NY Gala “Sharing the Light” in New York City, The Elie Wiesel Foundation proudly joined in honoring Dov Seidman — Founder and Chairman of The HOW Institute for Society and LRN, and a board member of the Foundation — for his lifelong commitment to moral leadership in society.

We congratulate Dov on this well-deserved recognition. His leadership, vision, and enduring commitment to human dignity continue to inspire our work and mission every day.

LizAnn Rogovoy Eisen 92nd Street Y LRN

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