Elie Wiesel: The Great Humanitarian

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Elie Wiesel: The Great Humanitarian Elie Wiesel was born on september 30 1928. In Sighet Transylvania. Elie Wiesel had 3 sisters two older and one younger.Elie Wiesel had to face adversities and one of them are death.Wiesel had to overcome 1 being separated from his mom, 2 being separated from his sister , and 3 his dad getting beat and being sick . These adversities made Elie Wiesel become the man he is today; he is truly a humanitarian. pg When Elie Wiesel and his family first got to the camp they saw fire where people that were dead go and get burned. Before they know it one of germans came and took them away from his mom and sister but he got to stay with his dad at the camp.“When we got there we saw dead people in ditches getting
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