Image Gallery: Elie Wiesel and Influential Figures
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Writer and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel has spent decades advancing humanitarian causes. Throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries, his work has brought him into contact with cultural and political leaders from around the globe. In the next photo, Wiesel revisits a somber World War II site.
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Elie Wiesel and wife Marion with human rights activist and former Polish President Lech Walesa at Auschwitz in 1988.
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Elie Wiesel with Vaclav Havel, the President of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the Czech Republic (1993–2003).
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Elie Wiesel and wife Marion with Mikhail Gorbachev and wife Raisa.
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Elie Wiesel and The Dalai Lama.
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Elie Wiesel with Golda Meir, fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel.
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Elie Wiesel with Colin Powell.
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Elie Wiesel with Queen Rania and King Abdullah II of Jordan.
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Elie Wiesel with Yitzhak Rabin.
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Elie Wiesel, wife Marion, and General David Howell Patraeus.
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Elie Wiesel with President Bill Clinton.
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Elie Wiesel with President George H. W. Bush.
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Maurice Levy, Elie Wiesel, Laura Bush and Marion Wiesel.
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Kofi Annan and Elie Wiesel.
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King Juan Carlos of Spain receiving the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity Award in 1991.
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Elie Wiesel and Hillary Clinton.
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Elie Wiesel with George H.W. Bush and wife Marion.
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Elie Wiesel, The Dalai Lama, and Marion Wiesel.
After looking through pictures of Elie Wiesel with some of the world's most influential people, can you guess which famous ladies made it onto our top 10 most influential women list?
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