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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]