Elie Wiesel
Austin Norman
Elie wiesel was born in 1928 in the town of Sighet, now part of Romania. During World War II, he, with his family and other Jews from the area, were deported to the German concentration and extermination camps, where his parents and little sister perished. Wiesel and his two older sisters survived. Liberated from Buchenwald in 1945 by advancing Allied troops, he was taken to Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne and worked as a journalist.
The Night
One reason why Night was written was to speak to the world about the ordeal of the Holocaust from a survivor's point of view. I am not sure any History text can effectively relay the horror, atrocity, and terror of The Holocaust any better than Wiesel's work.
Aushwiatz
Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. Wikipedia
Elie Wiesel
Born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel pursued Jewish religious studies before his family was forced to move to Nazi death camps during WWII. Wiesel survived and later wrote the internationally acclaimed memoir Night. He has also penned many books and become an activist, orator and teacher, speaking out against persecution and injustice across the globe.
The crematorium
Crematorium I operated at ashwizt from August 15, 1940 until July 1943. According to calculations by the German authorities, 340 corpses could be burned every 24 hours after the installation of the three furnaces.
The barracks
The brick barracks were constructed in the autumn of 1941. The Germans originally intended the barracks to house 40 prisoners, but very often more than 700 would be placed in each of them. The total number of prisoners to each barrack depended on the number of transports arriving.
Roll Call
During roll call appeal prisoners would have to stand still, wearing very thin clothing, in all weathers and for hours on end. The block kapo would count the number of prisoners before reporting to the SS officer.