Oprah Winfrey takes popular novelist and Holocaust survivor, Elie Weisel, back to Auschwitz, where he endured the most horrifying treatment from man during the Holocaust. Nearly 1.1 to 1.5 million people died at Auschwitz death camp. Elie was only 15 when he was sent to Auschwitz. He was taken there by cattle cars that had thousands of jews packed into them. These journeys were torturous. Elie tells Oprah of when he was in the car, a women he knew screamed, “fire” which in actuality was flames and smoke of the crematoriums, yet at this time, they had no idea what was actually going on. He compares the procedure of the gas chambers as a laboratory program.Elie explains to Oprah how the SS soldiers kept everything in line and this is why they
