Elie Weisel, a Holocaust survivor and acclaimed author known for his memoir "Night," was among Madoff's victims. The Nobel Peace Prize winner and his wife, Marion, lost their entire savings along with $15.2 million from their charity, according to The New York Times.
"We gave him everything, we thought he was God, we trusted everything in his hands," Weisel revealed during a panel with Condé Nast in 2009 (via CNBC). "All of a sudden, everything we have done in forty years literally, my books, my lectures, my university salary, everything was gone."