yes they lived close to the camps
Elie Wiesel lived in Sighet, which is now in Romania but was then in Hungary.
No, concentration camps was where the Germans put the Jewish people and killed them, but mental hospitals are where people with mental illness go that can't live in normal society. Comparing them is an insult to all Jewish people and everyone who loved in the camps.
I presume that you mean the ghettos, concentration camps, and death camps. Ghettos were closed off portions of towns and cities, most famously the Warsaw Ghetto, where Jews were forced to live. The ghettos were gradually liquidated, and the Jews sent to concentration and death camps as quickly as the Germans could manage.
ghettos, concentration camps, and death camps
however they could, they had no choice.
Concentration camps
Most people who "worked" in the concentration camps lived (if you can call it living) in the camp. People were shipped all across Europe to different camps. Sometimes they could be close to where they used to live, but more often than not they would simple be shipped like cattle to a camp that needed work. Where they would normally live out their remaining weeks/months/years and die a horrible death. Hope this helps you out. Was slightly confused by the question itself. Wasn't sure if you meant did they use to live close to the camp or if they were shipped in daily.
WW2 from citizens to soldiers to concentration camps
In the early Years, they were sent to the Concentration Camps by train in cattle carts which were originally used to transporting dead and live cows to the slaghter houses and farms.
They were forced to live in Ghettos and concentration camps
Just pure determination.
People were forced to leave their homes and businesses and made to live in concentration camps.