USPS honors Elie Wiesel

At a ceremony at the 92nd Street Y last Wednesday, Elie Wiesel became the 18th person to be honored with a stamp as part of the U.S. Postal Service’s Distinguished Americans series.

Mr. Wiesel, who was born in 1928, survived Nazi concentration camps, wrote about his experiences, most famously in “Night,” won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, and modeled resilience, compassion, hope, and love, died in 2016.

His “life and writing on the Holocaust are a testament to moral courage and the resilience of the human spirit,” the USPS said.

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