Elie Wiesel was born on the 30th of September 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania to Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel. Wiesel would arguably become the most famous survivor of the Holocaust. When he was just fifteen years old, Elie, his three parents, and his three sisters were transported to Auschwitz by Nazi soldiers. At the camp, both his mother and his younger sister had passed away. Along with his father, Wiesel was sent to the Buna Werke labor camp where they were forced to work under inhumane and dangerous conditions. However, Shlomo passed away after he was beaten by a German soldier at Buchenwald. Elie was freed from Buchenwald in 1945. Elie and his two older sisters, Beatrice and Hilda had survived the Holocaust and concentration camps. After