Elie Wiesel was born in the town of Sighet in Transylvania, and was still a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home to the Auschwitz concentration camp and then to Buchenwald. His father was a prominent leader in the Sighet Jewish community, and even he doubted the stories of atrocity that Moshe told. Following WWII, he moved to Paris, where he took up French, and eventually his journalism career led him …showed first 75 words of 1085 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1085 total…only a fraction of the pain that was borne by the prisoners of the Nazis during World-War II. His work also serves the purpose of general education about the holocaust, which is what society must do in order to avoid the repetition of history. Wiesel uses outstanding literary tools to educate and expose his readers to the holocaust to that, beyond all means, this horrible atrocity against humanity never happens again.