Nobel Peace Prize Winner Elie Wiesel was attacked in a San Francisco Hotel last week, according to a report on the website of the San Francisco Chronicle.

The paper reports that Mr. Wiesel was at the Argent Hotel on February 1 for a confernce on facing violence, when he was confronted in an elevator by a man who insisted he wanted to interview the Holocaust survivor and noted author.

When Mr. Wiesel suggested they go to the lobby, according to the Chronicle, the man stopped the elevator on the sixth floor and tried to drag Mr. Wiesel into a room. Mr. Wiesel screamed and managed to escape to the lobby where he called for the police, according to the paper.

On an anti-semitic website that purports to inform “all there is to know about Zionism,” a man identifying himself as Eric Hunt describes having followed Mr. Wiesel for weeks and that he “had planned to bring Wiesel to my hotel room where he would truthfully answer my questions regarding the fact that his non-fiction Holocaust memoir, Night, is almost entirely fictitious.

“I told him, “Why, you don’t want people to know the truth?” His expression changed, and he began screaming again. HELP! HELP!, So, after pulling him about fifteen feet out of the elevator, alerting a few floors, I decided that it was time for me to go.”

The Chronicle reports that the man’s description of the attack matches the version being offered by the San Francisco Police Department.

The police are aware of the website and are searching for a suspect, according to the paper.