Elie Wiesel is an author, and a professor. The Holocaust is a terrible event that was started by the cruel leader of the Nazis, Adolf Hitler. He told everyone that Jews were bad, so he started a chain of places called concentration camps, in those camps were many soldiers and death tools including the gas chambers. Many people survived the Holocaust, one person that survived was Elie Wiesel, author of the novel/memoir, Night. If Elie Wiesel died in the Holocaust, then nobody would of learned about Elie Wiesel and his intelligence and physical and mental toughness. Before the Holocaust, Elie had a small family, his mom, his dad, his 2 older sisters, and his younger sister. His two older sisters, Hilda and Beatrice, his younger sister Tzipora, his mother Sarah Feig, and his father Shlomo Wiesel. Elie Wiesel was educated in Sighet, Romania, but in his later years, he went to the University of Paris. Elie lived in Sighet, Romania, he grew up there until he was about 15 years old, A native of Sighet, Transylvania…”, (“Elie”). …show more content…
Ghettos are small camps that hold many Jews, there is always a lack of food, disease, and the living environment was terrible. Many Jews either died from starvation, dehydration or suicide. Elie’s family was also taken to the infamous concentration camp, Auschwitz, Auschwitz is located in Poland, the living environment was deadly, the lack of food was extreme, there was many diseases, then the gas chambers killed thousands of Jews, the Nazis would kill the Jews by beating them, gas chamber, or the crematorium. “In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die”, (“In”). The leader of the Nazis was Adolf Hitler, he was a cruel man, killing Jews, burning Jewish books, and much more. There was at least 1.3 million Jews in all the concentration camps