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//Elie Wiesel, September 2010//

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 Sighet, Romania. He was a very religious child, who spent most of his time praying or learning about his God. Elie was 16 years old when him, his family, friends and the other people of his village were deported to the german concentration camp Auschwitz in the year of 1944. Wiesel was separated from his mother and sister, and continued with his father for another year until he to, was killed in 1945. Eli survived Auschwitz, Buna, Buchenwald, and Gleiwitz.

After being liberated from the concentration camp in 1945, Elie spent some time in a French orphanage, and in 1948 he began his studies in Paris at The Sorbonne. He worked with the French newspaper //L'arche, //he was 20 years old at the time. Francois Mauriac convinced Elie to write his book //Night// in 1958.

Corpses from the holocaust Elie Wiesel, bottom row last to the left Adolf Hitler, 1937 Elie Wiesel, age 15