Auschwitz was a concentration camp designed to work prisoners until they died The Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust.Auschwitz a concentration camp in Poland.

Elie Wiesel is a holocaust survivor and Elie mother and the youngest of his three sisters died at Auschwitz, while he and his father later were moved to another camp, Buchenwald, located in Germany.

Wiesel’s father perished at Buchenwald just months before it was liberated. he got beat to death by Allied troops in April 1945.in the holocaust he spent most of his time a orphan. he studied at Sorbonne.