Holocaust
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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HOLOCAUST PROJECT
BY: OSCAR CARRETE 1ST PERIOD
ELIE WIESEL
WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1928
ELIE WIESEL WAS AN AUTHOR WHO WROTE 57
BOOKS, INCLUDING THE BOOK "NIGHT".
HIS PARENTS WERE SARAH FIEG AND CHLOMO WIESEL
AND HE HAD 3 SISTERS, 2 OF THEM SURVIVED THE WAR.
ELIES FAMILY MOSTLY SPOKE YIDISH MOST OF THE TIME.
THEY ALSO SPOKE ROMANIAN, HUNGARIAN, AND GERMAN
ELIES FATHER HAD A STRONG SENSE OF HUMANISM IN HIS SON,
HE ENCOURAGED HIM TO LEARN HEBREW AND TO READ LITERATURE.
IN 1940, ROMANIA LOST THE TOWN OF SIGHET, IN 1944 ELIE, ELIE'S FAMILY,
AND THE REST OF THE TOWN WERE PLACES TO ONE OF THE TWO GHETOS IN SIGHET.
ON MAY 16, 1944, THE HUNGARIAN AUTHORITIES ALLOWED THE GERMAN
ARMY TO DEPORT THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN SIGHET TO AUSCHIWITZ-BIRKENAU.
WHILE AT AUSCHWITZ, HIS INMATE NUMBER,
A-7713", WAS tattooed onto his left arm.
WIESEL WAS SEPARATED FROM HIS MOTHER AND SISTERS HILDA, BEATRICE,
AND TZIPORA. TZIPORA WAS KILLED IN THE GAS CHAMBERS.
ELIE AND HIS FATHER WAS SENT TO THE
WORK CAMP, BUNA.
ON JANUARY 29, 1945, ELIE'S FATHER WAS
SENT TO THE CREMATORIUM AND DIED.
ON APRIL 11 THE CAMP WAS LIBERATED
BY THE U.S THIRD ARMY.
ELIE SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST ANWAS AN ORPHAN. HILDA AND
BEATICE ALSO SURVIVED AND WAS SENT TO A FRENCH ORPHANAGE.
AFTER THE WAR, ELIE WIESEL BECAME AN
IMPORTANT AUTHOR.
FOR 10 YEARS AFTER THE WAR, ELIE REFUSED TO TELL THE STORY OF
THE HOLOCAUST BECAUSE HE COULDN'T FIND THE WORDS TO DESCRIBE IT.
