Elie Wiesel awarded the National Humanities Medal at White House

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) stands by after he awarded Elie Wiesel the 2009 National Humanities Medal by during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington on February 25, 2010. Wiesel is a writer, professor at Boston University, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, the best known of which is Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. UPI/Mike Theiler