Since he and his family were Jewish they were constantly watched by Gestapo. In 1944, he was sent to a concentration camp named Auschwitz. There he and his father were sent to work. He was fifteen at the time, brown haired, semi-muscular. They were sent to do jobs such as digging and other hard jobs. All he got to eat was rations of bread and coffee or water. During the years he switched camps and life began to get harder and harder. He survived on the small amount of food and the love from his father. His father began to grow weak but Elie kept him alive. He lost a lot of weight and got ill but knew liberation was near which gave him the courage to go on.

I admire his will to survive. I also thought he had huge amounts of courage and strength. Many people who went through the same thing didn’t make it because they gave up. In 1945, his father died and weeks later he was liberated by American forces. He has written many books about his life and has won many awards. This is why my favorite character in this book is Elie Wiesel.