The Jews in concentration camps during the Holocaust would witness numerous horrific events that would scar them and many would lose their families before they had the chance to be liberated. Buna, which was a labor camp that was part of Auschwitz, was liberated by the Red Army on January 27th, 1945. The Red Army was able to free whoever was left in these camps and would discover the horrific conditions, most of the inhabitants including Elie Wiesel, had been forced to endure. The largest subcamp of Auschwitz, known as Buna, had been built by I.G. Farben in October of 1942. “Monowitz-Buna Concentration Camp,” mentions how I.G. Farben was an industrial company which constructed Buna at Monowitz, for the purpose of slave labor involving rubber …show more content…
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Levi along with hundreds of other Italian Jews would be sent to Auschwitz in February of 1944, and had been sent to the camp a few months before Elie Wiesel had arrived. Levi and the other Jews would learn the layout of the camp of Buna when they were deported there. As mentioned by Levi, the camp was in the shape of a square surrounded by electric fencing, consisting of sixty wooden blocks, and each block had a specific purpose (31). By figuring out the rules of the camp, they would be able to avoid less beatings and other forms of punishment. Many Jews were beaten to death, hung, or shot because they had made a mistake. Furthermore, this would help keep Levi, and the other Jews who tried to adapt to the conditions of the camps, alive. After the evacuations of the healthy Jews, the extremely ill ones were left to fend for themselves. Overtime, the number of corpses began to rise. “The pile of corpses in front of our window had by now overflowed out of the ditch” (Levi 169). One by one those who had no chance of getting better would die. The bodies of those who died in the concentration camps before liberation would be stacked outside the hospitals because they could not get rid of them. As the Red Army approached Buna, they would be welcomed by the wretched conditions of the concentration