Who Was Alive

Were Adolf Hitler and Elie Wiesel alive at the same time?

Yes. Adolf Hitler and Elie Wiesel were alive at the same time for 16 years, from 1928 to 1945.

Adolf Hitler was 39 when Elie Wiesel was born.

Elie Wiesel was 16 when Adolf Hitler died, aged 56.

Adolf Hitler

Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945

Born 20 April 1889 · died 30 April 1945, aged 56

Elie Wiesel

Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor

Born 30 September 1928 · died 2 July 2016, aged 87

  1. Mahatma Gandhi
  2. Vladimir Lenin
  3. Albert Einstein
  4. Adolf Hitler
  5. Ronald Reagan
  6. Nelson Mandela
  7. Elie Wiesel
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  9. Michael Jackson
  10. Barack Obama
Adolf Hitler and Elie Wiesel in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.