HELP! How do you pronounce the name "Elie Wiesel"?

[Mizmoon]

It is Ely (like the cotton gin fellow) V-cell?

[kick-ass-bob]

1. I'm pretty sure it is El-lee.

I guess v-cell is about right, if you use the accent correctly.

[NewJeffCT]

2. I think

I have heard it multiple times "ellie" for the first name, like Ellie May from the Waltons...

and, "wessel" like Chekov on Star Trek looking for nuclear wessels!

[Mizmoon]

3. thank you that's helpful!

[Heidi]

4. It's like this:

Ay'-lee Vee'-sel. (I asked Mr. Heidi, native German speaker.)

[Gormy Cuss]

5. elie = AY-lee

His last name I've heard both as Vee-ZEL and VEE-zil, more often the former.

[MN ChimpH8R]

6. Same here

vee-zel seems to be preferred

And Elly May was on the Beverly Hillbillies :evilgrin: