2009 Commencement Speaker

Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Laureate honored for his leadership in fighting injustice and his writings as a Holocaust survivor, will deliver the commencement address during the 159th graduation ceremony at Bucknell University in May.

Wiesel is the author of more than 50 books, including the world-renowned Night, a memoir of his experience in Nazi concentration camps. He and his family were held in three camps, including Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

“Bucknell is proud to be welcoming to the University one of the foremost advocates for humaneness, a leader and a writer who has provided vivid and potent testimony to the horrors of prejudice and the need for learning and remembering the lessons of history,” President Brian C. Mitchell said in announcing the commencement speaker.