Eliezar Wiesel is a real-life character. He is a Jewish boy who grew up during Hitler's unbearable reign as dictator. Eliezar, better known as Elie, was a boy of strong faith and an eagerness to learn more about his Jewish belief. His father, Chlomo, was greatly respected in their community in Sighet. Often people in their community would look to him and consult him about many public and private matters. Elie's parents ran a shop …showed first 75 words of 1198 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1198 total…were going to kill them. The following day the head of the camp announced that the camp would be liquidated. On April tenth, at ten o'clock in the morning the resistance acted and by noon everything was quite again. The resistance had worked and at about six o'clock that evening the first American tank stood at the gates of Buchenwald. After all the torture and the lost of so many lives they were finally liberated.