Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and Boston University professor, is the evening's main speaker. Wiesel has worked on behalf of oppressed people for much of his adult life. His personal experience of the Holocaust has led him to use his talents as author, teacher and storyteller to defend human rights and peace throughout the world. His 1958 novel, "LaNuit" (Night), about his Holocaust experience, has been translated into 25 languages and millions of copies have been sold.