Elie Wiesel was born and grew up in Sighet, which was in Romania when he was born (1929). In 1940 that part of Romania was transferred to Hungary.
In March 1944 Germany forced Hungary to accept a Nazis into the government. They started sending Jews to Auschwitz ... Elie Wiesel's family was Jewish and was deported to Auschwitz.
Do you mean Elie Wiesel? He did not escape, he was liberated. He managed to survive until he was freed from the camp.
It was A-7713.
Elie Wiesel looses his father, mother, sisters, and childhood.
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Buchenwald was a concentration camp.
Do you mean Elie Wiesel? He did not escape, he was liberated. He managed to survive until he was freed from the camp.
Elie Wiesel kept a striped concentration camp uniform from his time at Auschwitz.
It was A-7713.
Elie Wiesel looses his father, mother, sisters, and childhood.
Idek.
Elie Wiesel
Buchenwald was a concentration camp.
At the beginning of the excerpt in "Night" by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel is in a train car with other Jews being transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
They were sent to Auschwitz along with Elie and the rest of the Wiesel family
Elie Wiesel was sent to Auschwitz on May 16th 1944.
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Elie Wiesel was the only one in his family to survive. He was separated from his mother and sister when they first got there and never saw them again. His father died while Elie was asleep after being sick.