Sighet
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Elie Wiesel grew up in Sighet Romania also known as (sighetu marmatiei) Sighet was located in an isolated region around the Carpathian mountains where they were lacking moderization for a long time. Sighet was apart of Hungary from 1940 to 1944. The living conditions in sighet were terrible when it came to jewish people because they were to abide by harsh rules and conditions. In april of 1944 there was a distruction of Hungarian Jewry came to the ghetto is Sighet. Deportation from two sections of the ghetto where carried out of their homes.
Gleiwitz
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Gleiwitz is the second concentration camp Ellie was brought to, it’s located in Gliwice, Poland. It was a branch camp of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. It’s where Ellie and the rest of the prisoners marched to while his foot was still injured. It was founded in 1944, the first several prisoners there were tasked to build seven wooded residential barraks a kitchen, hospital, storage units and workshops. As Ellie arrived in Gleiwitz him and his father were crushed by the crowd of men, he was also on top of Juliek (the kid with the violin). After three days of no food or water there, another selection happened, it’s the one where Ellie runs after his dad because he was sent to stand with the commended people. The prisoners worked repairing damaged sides of cars, in the machine shop and smithy, and building roads and a nearby airstrip. From the late summer of 1944, they were taken out to work on two 12-hour shifts. Prisoners who for some reason had no other assignment were assigned to “Steinetragen” which means to pointlessly carry stones from a nearby slag heap to the camp and back again. Almost a hundred Gleiwitz I prisoners died as a result of mistreatment, hunger, and backbreaking labor. At least five were shot while trying to escape. The number sent to Birkenau after selection cannot be established. The camp population just before evacuation in January 1945 was 1,336 prisoners
Buchenwald
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Buchenwald is a one of the many sites the held Jewish concentration camps. The concentration camp was established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. Now it is now a memorial site and a place filled with history. There is also a museum on the grounds.It contained 250,000 prisoners and was freed by the United states. Elie Wiesel was in this camp during his younger life. He stayed there for a short period of time and was moved to the next camp. His time in Buchenwald was better than the other camps. It was calm in Buchenwald and the violence was low. In 1944, Hungarian Jews were transported to Buchenwald from Auschwitz. The weather is chilly and in the summer it usually only gets into the 70’s. In the winter temperatures dip down to 30 degrees. The memorial site is open from 10 AM to 6 PM.
Birkenau
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Located close to the industrial town of Oświęcim in southern Poland (in a portion of the country that was taken over by Germany at the beginning of World War II), Auschwitz-Birkenau, is the most infamous of the nazi camps known as Auschwitz. It was a immense forced labour and extermination camps at the centre of a network of more than 40 camps. Birkenau began operating as a death camp between the dates of March 1942 and January 1945 and registered with a total 1.3 million inmates. It was liberated by the Soviet Union on the 27th of January 1945 and It was found that at least 1.1 million were killed and burned. Elie Wiesel and his father where first separated from his mother and sisters at this camp. His mother and younger sister where burned on the first night, but he later discovered that his two older sisters managed to survive.
