survival March,2014 | Page 4

Survival  form  the  holocaust   Elie   Wisel   was   born   in   1928   in   Sighet,   nowadays   part   of   Romania.   During   the   Second   World   War   he   and   his   family   were   deported   to   the   Germans   concentraCon   camps   for   Jews.   His   mother,   youngest   sister,   and   his   father,   died   in   the   concentraCon   camps,   witch   leaded   him   to   be  alone  unCl  Jews  were  free.     Wiesel   and   his   two   older   sisters   survived   the   concentraCon   camps,   he   was   liberated   in   1945.   He   moved   to   Paris   where   he   studied   at   the   Sorbonne   and   became  a  journalist.  He  published  a  book   called   “Night”;   which   talks   about   his   story   at  the  concentraCon  camps.