Editing Elie Wiesel (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Elie Wiesel and wife Marion 2012 Shankbone.JPG|thumb|Wiesel and wife Marion at the [[Time 100|2012 ''Time'' 100]]]]
In 1969 he married [[Marion Wiesel|Marion Erster Rose]], who originally was from Austria and also translated many of his books.<ref name=Virtual/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.centralsynagogue.org/about_us/shofar_shabbat/wiesel|title=Central Synagogue|work=centralsynagogue.org|access-date=January 2, 2015|archive-date=May 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200518225110/https://www.centralsynagogue.org/about_us/shofar_shabbat/wiesel|url-status=dead}}</ref> They had one son, [[Elisha Wiesel|Shlomo Elisha Wiesel]], named after Wiesel's father.<ref name=Virtual/><ref name="Telushkin, Joseph pp.190"/> The family lived in [[Greenwich, Connecticut]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Human-rights-advocate-Elie-Wiesel-turns-86-5792439.php|title=Human rights advocate Elie Wiesel turns 86|newspaper=Connecticut Post |access-date=July 3, 2016|date=October 2014|archive-date=May 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528122034/https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Human-rights-advocate-Elie-Wiesel-turns-86-5792439.php|url-status=live |last1=Semmes |first1=Anne W. }}</ref>

Wiesel was attacked in a San Francisco hotel by 22-year-old [[Holocaust denier]] Eric Hunt in February 2007, but was not injured. Hunt was arrested the following month and charged with multiple offenses.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna17193352 |title=Police arrest man accused of attacking Wiesel: Holocaust-surviving Nobel laureate was allegedly accosted in elevator |agency=Associated Press |publisher=NBC News |date=February 18, 2007 |access-date=May 17, 2011 |archive-date=October 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013123658/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17193352/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-08-18-wiesel-accosted_N.htm |title=Man gets two-year sentence for accosting Elie Wiesel |date=August 18, 2008 |access-date=August 27, 2008 |work=[[USA Today]] |agency=Associated Press |archive-date=March 27, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327150142/http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-08-18-wiesel-accosted_N.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

In May 2011, Wiesel served as the [[Washington University in St. Louis]] commencement speaker.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://libguides.wustl.edu/wustl-commencement/speakers|title=Research Guides: WU Commencement History: Commencement Speakers|last=Rectenwald|first=Miranda|website=libguides.wustl.edu|language=en|access-date=August 26, 2019|archive-date=July 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725222709/https://libguides.wustl.edu/wustl-commencement/speakers|url-status=live}}</ref>

In February 2012, a member of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] performed a [[posthumous baptism]] for [[Simon Wiesenthal]]'s parents without proper authorization.<ref>{{cite news | last = Fletcher Stack | first = Peggy | title = Mormon church apologizes for baptisms of Wiesenthal's parents | newspaper = The Salt Lake Tribune | location = Salt Lake City, Utah | date = February 13, 2012 | url = http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53506130-78/church-mokotoff-jewish-lds.html.csp | access-date = February 17, 2012 | archive-date = June 22, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170622162916/http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53506130-78/church-mokotoff-jewish-lds.html.csp | url-status = live }}</ref> After his own name was submitted for proxy baptism, Wiesel spoke out against the unauthorized practice of posthumously baptizing Jews and asked presidential candidate and Latter-day Saint [[Mitt Romney]] to denounce it. Romney's campaign declined to comment, directing such questions to church officials.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wallsten |first1=Peter |last2=Horowitz |first2=Jason |date=14 February 2012 |title=Elie Wiesel calls on Mitt Romney to make Mormon church stop proxy baptisms of Jews |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/elie-wiesel-calls-on-mitt-romney-to-make-mormon-church-stop-proxy-baptisms-of-jews/2012/02/14/gIQAZK6bER_story.html |url-status= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528122020/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/elie-wiesel-calls-on-mitt-romney-to-make-mormon-church-stop-proxy-baptisms-of-jews/2012/02/14/gIQAZK6bER_story.html |archive-date=28 May 2019 |access-date=3 July 2016 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>