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Put the paragraph below in your own words. In your post, write a paraphrase that avoids plagiarism. Your paraphrase can be as long as the excerpt you have chosen but should not duplicate any phrasing from the excerpt. If you must, you can quote up to three words in a phrase.

Paraphrase the excerpt below taken from Biography.com:

At the age of 15, Wiesel and his entire family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the Holocaust, which took the lives of more than 6 million Jews. Wiesel was sent to Buna Werke labor camp, a sub-camp of Auschwitz III-Monowitz, with his father where they were forced to work under deplorable, inhumane conditions. They were transferred to other Nazi camps and force marched to Buchenwald where his father died after being beaten by a German soldier, just three months before the camp was liberated. Wiesels mother and younger sister Tzipora also died in the Holocaust. Elie was freed from Buchenwald in 1945. Of his relatives, only he and his older sisters Beatrice and Hilda survived.