May10th

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 […]

May9th

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 […]