Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel dies

Elie Wiesel, whose acclaimed books chronicled his tortured memories of human cruelty in the Nazi concentration camps has died. He was 87. He died on Saturday, at his home in New York.

For more than five decades, Wiesel played a central role in efforts to remember, mourn and learn from the near-extermination of European Jews in World War II, admonishing the world about humans' capacity for unconscionable cruelty.