Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania on September 30, 1928.  For the first few years, his life was normal and the same as any other boy's life.  Growing up in a small village in Romania, his world revolved around family, religious study, community and God.  Then came the rise of the anti-semitic Nazi party led by Hitler.  Wiesel, his family, and all the rest of the jews in his village were deported to the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Buna, Buchenwald, and Gleiwitz in 1944.

     As told in his book, Night, written on first-hand experience, Wiesel along with millions of other jews were put through the worst of punishments; the Holocaust.  Wiesel suffered through malnourishment, cruel SS officers, and horrifying conditions.  Jews were to be burned in crematories or murdered in gas chambers if they were just "selected" to be.  Others were randomly shot or died just because of their horrible physical conditions.  After over a year of suffering, Auschwiz was liberated, and all the jews along with Elie Wiesel were freed.  None of his family members made it out of the Holocaust with him though.  

     No human being should have ever had to go through that horrible event.  There was no reason for the massacre of jewish people that happened in concentration camps all over Europe during Nazi control.