increase font size Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel set in stone at National Cathedral The carving completes a quartet of heads of prominent figures in the four corners of an alcove known as the Human Rights Porch. By ASHRAF KHALILAssociated Press Share Washington National Cathedral stone carver Sean Callahan uses an air chisel to work on the sculpture of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winning author Elie Wiesel at the cathedral on March 25. Wiesel, who died in 2016, was an outspoken advocate for human rights causes around the world, helped found the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.