Marion Wiesel, who translated many books written by her husband, Elie Wiesel, including the final edition of his magnum opus, Night, and who encouraged him to pursue a wide-ranging public career, helping him become one of the most renowned interpreters of the Holocaust, died on Feb. 2 at her home in Greenwich, CT. She was 94.

Marion Wiesel shared her husband’s cosmopolitan knowledge of European culture and fluency in several languages. She quickly began translating his writings from French to English, ultimately working on 14 of his books.

Perhaps no single moment of Mr. Wiesel’s political career is so vividly recalled as his plea to Ronald Reagan, issued in the White House alongside the president and in front of TV cameras, not to visit the Bitburg military cemetery, where members of the SS are buried in what was then West Germany. “That place, Mr. President, is not your place,” Mr. Wiesel said. “Your place is with victims of the SS.”

“Those remarks had an editor: Mrs. Wiesel,” Alex Traub wrote in The New York Times. “There would not have been a Bitburg speech without Marion’s conviction,” the couple’s editor and friend Ileene Smith said. She called Mrs. Wiesel her husband’s “most trusted advisor.”     Elie Wiesel Foundation photo