Experiences With the Holocaust
Eliezer Wiesel was a Romanian born Jewish writer, who was in the Auschwitz, and Buchenwald concentration camps during the Holocaust. He had his parents and three sisters, when he was deported Auschwitz. However, his mother, and one of his sisters were gassed. Him and his father were sent to the slave-labor part of Auschwitz, and in January 1945 they were in the death march to Buchenwald, which his father died then on January 28. Wiesel was liberated in April (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica).
Academic History
Wiesel, and his two older sisters were able to survive until liberation from Buchenwald in 1945, Wiesel would then settle in France, and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, and worked as a journalist. In 1958, he would publish his first book, La Nuit, which would be about his expierience with Auschwitz and Buchenwald (Elie Wiesel Biographical).
Marion Wiesel
Wiesel would later marry a girl named Marion, and have 2 children, and eventually 2 grandchildren as well. Marion Wiesel translated Elie Wiesel's writing, which would help make him one of the most well known Holocaust survivors (Traub).