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Biography of Elie Wiesel Eliezer Wiesel (Elie), son of Mr. And Mrs. Shlomo Wiesel, was born in Sighet, Transylvania on September 30, 1928. He had two older sisters, Hilda and Beatrice Wiesel and a younger sister, Tzipora Wiesel. Elie spoke many languages including Hungarian, Romanian, German and he grew up speaking Yiddish. When World War II had just started, Elie was not really affected by it. In 1944, when Elie was fifteen years old, him, his parents and younger sister were taken to Auschwitz. There him and his father were separated from his mother and small sister. Within a year his father and him had been moved to several different concentration camps such as Buna, Gleiwitz, Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He tried his best to stay with his father every time they were moved. His father and him watched out for each other, till his father’s death in 1945. The United States Third Army finally freed Elie Wiesel and the other survivors on April 1945. Once the war had ended, Elie found out that both his mother and sister had died in the gas chambers. His two older sisters had survived. He spends a few years in an orphanage, and then in 1948 he began to write for the