| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize | |
| Year: | 1970 |
| Number: | 19 - 0 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Elie Wiesel |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1928 |
| Year, Death: | 2016 |
| Country: | ROMANIA (RO) |
| Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1986 | |
| Motivation: | "Elie Wiesel was nominated on the grounds of his powerful and uniquely influential portrait in his literary work ""The Jews of Silence"" and his candor, fairness, and clear trust in mankind despite all that has happened in our time." |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Maurice Stanley Friedman |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1921 |
| Year, Death: | 2012 |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |