Tributes have sex sara jay and karen fisher videospoured out in the wake of the death of Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel at the age of 87.
Wiesel's book, Night, was one of the seminal works about the experience of prisoners in Nazi concentration camps and is widely read by young adults in school.
His death was announced by Israel's Yad Veshem Holocaust Memorial, according to the Associated Press.
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Fellow authors, citizens and public figures mourned the author's death on Twitter, remembering him as a towering moral figure who had a profound influence.
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UPDATE: July 3, 2016, 11:26 a.m. AESTTweets added.
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