Elie Wiesel and his family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the holocaust during WW2. His mother and younger sister Tzipora were separated from him his father and his other sisters. After WW2 Elie found out that his mother and Tzipora his young sister were killed by one of the gas chambers. Him and his family were persecuted while they were there.
They starved his father and him when they were in the camps. The reason why was because he helped a Jewish person by giving that person food and water and help to escape hitler’s hands. They also starved him and his father because they were like slaves to the German soldiers so the soldiers did not feed the people very much.
He was forced to work under appalling conditions. They had too because hitler made every person in camp to work and if they didn’t they would get shot or something else that is dreadful. The german soldiers would shoot somebody even if they did work hard so Elie had to work very very hard.
His dad suffered because of dysentery, starvation, and exhaustion but still survived after WW2. Elie Wiesel moved to New York and had heart surgery. He wrote a story called Night.
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