The book “Night” was written by Elie Wiesel. It is about his experiences with his dad and their life while the Holocaust. He was held in Nazi captivity for much of his childhood. The camps he were at were called Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He is a Holocaust survivor. Wiesel was born September 30, 1928 and was born in Sighet. In 1940, the Nazi’s turned Sighet over to Hungary. In 1942, all Jews who could not prove Hungarian citizenship would be transferred to Nazi-held Poland and murdered.
The Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of many camps in Germany that held Jews and other people against the Nazi’s. Wiesel was among the last few Jews to be put in a train car. There was eighty people in one car. He said life in