Elie Wiesel is to receive an honorary knighthood. The Nov. 30 honor will be presented to the Nobel Peace Prize winner for his contributions to Holocaust education in Britain. Wiesel was born in Romania in 1928 and survived both Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps.
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