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Eliezer and his family come from the town of Sighet in Transylvania, which was a part of Hungary at the time of their deportation to Auschwitz during World War II.
Eliezer's family is deported from Sighet on the eve of Pentecost, which falls on May 20, 1944.
The Wiesel family lived in the town of Sighet in Transylvania.
Sighet, Translyvania ...which is in Romania.
The inhabitants of the two ghettos in Sighet, including the Wiesel family, were deported to Auschwitz in 1944.
Sighet is located in Romania.
Sighet is a town in Transylvania, Romania, where Elie Wiesel, the author of the book "Night," was born. It is also where Wiesel and his family were living when they were deported to Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Sighet is a significant setting in the book, as it represents the loss of innocence and the beginning of Wiesel's harrowing journey through the concentration camps.
Sighet prison was created in 1897.
No, Sighet is not a country. It is a town in Romania.
The only problem is that people don't believe it.
The youngest of the Wiesel family was Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author known for his memoir "Night." He was born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Romania.
To a ghetto within Sighet.