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=Backround information/Elie Wiesel=

==When wiesel was 15, him and his family were taken away by the nazis. they were forced to live in a jewish ghetto, then the nazis made them move to a place called auschwitz birkenau. he was born in sighet, a rumanian shtetl. born on september 30th 1928. wiesel spent a lot of time talking to moshie. moshie was a caretaker in a synagogue, he was the only jew to escape when the nazis took the jews away before. elie had to live through getting beat, starving, and torture. he witnessed poeple getting killed in the most torturous ways.==

==wiesel got seperated from his mom and sister when they got to auschwitz. he spent a lot of his time there with his father. he listened to an inmate and lied about his age, saying he was 18. he lied so he wouldnt be killed, or seperated from his dad.==