"I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction." -Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel was an ordinary Jewish boy, always cautious about being seperated from his family. He was the only boy of three sisters, two older sisters Hilda and Beatrice and one younger, Tzipora. Wiesel was born in Sighet, which later turns into Transilvania, in the Carpathian Mountains. He lived in a home where his family mostly spoke Yiddish but could also speak German, Hungarian, and Romanian. In 1944, Wiesel and his family were forced to wear yellow stars on their clothes to symbolize that they were Jewish. Later, they had to be immigrated to Nazi death camps on Hitler's commands. During World War II, in 1940, Sighet was taken over by Hungary causing all…show more content… SS doctors tested X-rays to see the efficacy as a sterilization device by administering large doses to female prisoners. Josef Mengele, was the most infamous doctor at Auschwitz also known as the "Angel of Death" was interested on researching identical twins. He performed crule experiments on twins by inducing diseases in one twin and killing the other when the first one died to compare the autopsies. Mengele deliberately induced Noma in dwarfs, twins and other prisoners to study the effects. Prisoners were very independent. Some prisoners didn't want to do anything they were supposed to do. Prisoners who didn't work would get whipped or shot. They often would steal from others or get extra portions of food. Those would find themselves getting hung or extra work. Others who tried to escape would get immediate death. Diseases were all over the camps, such as disease carrying lice, typhus, malnutrition and Noma, the most common for the death of children. "Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies." -Elie
