Imagine seeing infants and young children being thrown in the air, and used for target practice. In the book “Night”, Elie Wiesel tells us what he has seen during his time in the holocaust. So many people have heard about the horrible things that happened in the holocaust, imagine going through all the stuff they went through. How would you feel seeing many young children being killed for just being how they were born? Do you think you have been able to do the things Wiesel did i survive? Elie Wiesel had an interesting story, he felt the need to tell. At the age of 15, was sent to a concentration camp. Wiesel was sent to Buna Werke labor camp, with his father where they were forced to work under deplorable, inhumane conditions. They were transferred to other Nazi camps and force marched to Buchenwald where his father died after being beaten by a German soldier, just three months before the camp was liberated. Wiesel’s mother and younger sister Tzipora also died in the Holocaust. Wiesel and his older sisters Beatrice and Hilda were the only of their relatives to survive the Holocaust. After the Holocaust, Wiesel went on to study at the Sorbonne in France from …show more content…
He, along with his family and other Jewish residents of his town were taken prisoners and placed in confinement ghettos. Ghettos is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure. The war finally ended in 1945 and the camp was liberated by the U.S. Third Army on April 11, 1945. After the holocaust he enrolled in Sorbonne and studied literature, philosophy and psychology. While in his late teens, he started working as a journalist and began writing for the French newspaper ‘L’Arche.’ He was sent to Israel in 1949 as a correspondent. While in Israel he was also hired as a Paris correspondent for the Israeli newspaper ‘Yedioth