Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, has died: museum

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Born in 1928, Wiesel wrote extensively of his imprisonment in Nazi camps and in 1986 won the Nobel Prize for peace.

"Yad Vashem mourns the passing of Elie Wiesel-Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate, renowned author," the museum said on Twitter.

(Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch; editing by David Clarke)