P5 Night Journal Entry #1 Elie Wiesel Bio Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania on September 30, 1928. He had two older sisters and a younger sister named Tzipora. Elie grew up speaking Yiddish at home and learned classical Hebrew at school. He was just devoting his early years to religious studies. Suddenly in 1949, Elie and other Jews were deported to concentration camps in Poland. They found out that war has broken out. Elie and his father were taken to Auschwitz, and they were separated from Elie’s mother and younger sister Tzipora. Unfortunately, Elie never saw then again. In April 1945, Elie was liberated from Buchenwald, a concentration camp by U.S. army. After the war, Elie learned that his mom and younger sister had died