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Elie Wiesel
How would it feel if you did everything you could do to keep a loved one alive? What would it feel like to lose a loved one over starvation and tiredness? How would it feel if you had to lie to a loved one over your siblings or mother to keep one another happy? Elie Wiesel is the main person who always stayed strong through all this no matter what. Elie was fifteen years old when he was put in the concentration camps Elie lost his mother and his 7 year old little sister when he was fifteen-years-old and his father in concentration camps.The concentration camps were located in Auschwitz and Buchenwald . This all took place from 1944-1945,this also happend the time of the holocaust toward the end of the second world war.The only way

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