Elie Wiesel: Surviving The Holocaust

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Elie Wiesel
The holocaust, killed more than 6 million Jewish people just for being Jewish. Elie Wiesel was one of the lucky few to survive the holocaust. I’m going to explain what His life was like as a child, what his life was like as he was in the death camps, and what his life was like after the war was over and he was free again. Elie Wiesel became famous for writing about his experiences in the death camps.

Elies childhood was not perfect. He was born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet Romania.His father wanted him to study modern Hebrew. His mother wanted him to study the sacred jewish texts. He was only 15 years old when him and his entire family were captured and taken to Auschwitz. As soon as they arrived at auschwitz, his whole