Elie Wiesel was born in the Transylvanian
town of Sighet. Wiesel and most of the people that lived in the town of Sighet were Jewish. Wiesel started studying ancient
Hebrew at an early age and was fascinated by jewish mysticism. Even though the Romanian village was now owned by Hungary nobody
thought that they were in any danger.
In 1944, the Nazis arrived in Sighet
and started to deport the Jews to Polish concentration camps. Wiesel was seperated from his mother and sister when they arrived
at Auschwitz, he somehow remained with his father for the next year. Wiesel and his two older sisters survived the war but
the rest of his family did not. He became a journalist in france and Isreal, but nothing about the Holocaust. After ten years
he wrote a book which he titled Night, this book contained alot of his experiences from the Holocaust.
I think that Elie Wiesel's experiences
in the Holocaust were something no one should have to endure. He was beaten, starved, and made to do hard labor only because
he was Jewish. If we do not remember the Holocaust history could be doomed to repeat itself.
