REPORTERS, EDITORS:  Elie Wiesel will be available for brief
telephone interviews on Wednesday Nov. 15 at his office, (617)
353-2000.  To arrange a time for an interview please fax your
request to his office at (617) 353-4566 by Nov. 8.  IMPORTANT:
Press reservations are required.  To arrange for a press ticket
please call (804) 295-4963.

NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE AND HUMANITARIAN ELIE WIESEL
TO SPEAK AT U.VA. NOV. 19

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 3 -- Nobel Peace Prize winner and
noted humanitarian and author Elie Wiesel will speak on Sunday, Nov.
19, at the University of Virginia.  His talk, titled "Against
Indifference," will be at noon in Old Cabell Hall Auditorium and is
sponsored by the U.Va. Hillel Jewish Center, U.Va. President's
Office and the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life.
	Admission is $10 for the general public, $8 for seniors, $5
for persons under 18, and free for college student ticket-holders.
To facilitate seating, please obtain tickets ahead of time or arrive
at the door for tickets at least a half an hour before noon.
(Ticket locations are listed below.)
	Wiesel, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, has been
called a messenger to humankind for his work on behalf of oppressed
people around the world during much of his adult life.  His personal
experiences in the Holocaust have been the driving force in his
work, which includes authorship of some 35 books of fiction and
nonfiction that have won numerous awards.  His peace prize citation
notes that "his message is one of peace and atonement and human
dignity.  The message is in the form of a testimony, repeated and
deepened through the works of a great author." 
	Wiesel, who is on the humanities faculty at Boston
University and lives in New York, is a native of Romania.  He and
his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz when he was 15.
His mother and younger sister perished there, his two older sisters
survived.  Wiesel and his father were later transported to
Buchenwald.
	After the war Wiesel became a journalist in Paris and was
persuaded by the French writer Francois Mauriac not to remain silent
about what he had endured in the death camps.  He subsequently wrote
a famous memoir, "La Nuit" ("Night") which has been translated into
25 languages.  A devoted supporter of Israel, Wiesel has defended
the cause of Soviet Jews, Cambodian refugees, the Kurds, South
African apartheid victims, famine victims in Africa and many other
oppressed peoples around the world.  He has been an American citizen
since 1963.
	Wiesel's work has earned him the Presidential Medal of
Freedom and the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal in addition to
numerous other honors.  He is founding chairman of the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Council.  His books include "A Beggar in
Jerusalem," "The Testament," "The Fifth Son," "Sages and Dreamers"
and "The Forgotten." A volume of his memoirs will be published in
English this month as "All Rivers Run Into the Sea."
	Wiesel and his wife Marion have also established the Elie
Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.  It works to advance the cause of
human rights and peace throughout the world by creating a new forum
for discussion of urgent ethical issues confronting humanity.  It
has held major international conferences on pressing worldwide
issues including hate.
	Tickets for Wiesel's talk are available at the Hillel Jewish
Center, Newcomb Hall Information Desk, Williams Corner Bookstore and
Quilts Unlimited (Barracks Road Shopping Center).
	For additional information call (804) 295-4963.
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November 2, 1995