Eliezer and his family come from the town of Sighet in Transylvania, which was a part of Hungary at the time of their deportation to Auschwitz during World War II.
He was from the town of Sighet, Transylvania, then in Hungary, now in Romania.
Sighetu Marmatiei
Sighet is a town in Transylvania, Romania, where Elie Wiesel, the author of the book "Night," was born. It is also where Wiesel and his family were living when they were deported to Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Sighet is a significant setting in the book, as it represents the loss of innocence and the beginning of Wiesel's harrowing journey through the concentration camps.
Elie Wiesel's father was not wealthy. He was a grocery store owner in Sighet, a small town in Romania. The Wiesel family lived a modest life before being sent to concentration camps during the Holocaust.
The first edict in the book Night had ordered all foreign Jews to be expelled from Sighet, the town where Elie Wiesel lived with his family.
Sighet, Translyvania ...which is in Romania.
Bob Cratchets family lived there
Elie Wiesel grew up in Sighet, a town in Transylvania which was part of Hungary at the time. He was born in 1928 and spent his formative years in this small Jewish community before being deported to concentration camps during the Holocaust.
The first part of the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel is set in a small town called Sighet in Transylvania where the author lived with his family before being deported to concentration camps during the Holocaust.
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The Cratchit family, from Charles Dickens' novel "A Christmas Carol," lived in Camden Town.