Katie+Paisley

Katie Paisley Elie Wiesel 1. Where did Elie go after the camp he was in got liberated (set free)? Please go to [] to answer.  In January 2006, Oprah and Elie traveled to Auschwitz.  2. How many people died on the way to Buchenwald? To find out, read this paragraph below from : [] In the winter of 1944-1945, Wiesel’s right knee swelled up. He went to a camp doctor who operated on him. Two days later, on January 19, the [|SS] forced the inmates of Buna on a death march. For ten days, the prisoners were forced to run and, at the end, were crammed into freight cars and sent to [|Buchenwald]. Of the 20,000 prisoners who left Buna, 6,000 reached [|Buchenwald]. Upon arrival on June 29, Wiesel’s father, Shlomo, died of dysentery, starvation and exhaustion. Wiesel was sent to join 600 children in Block 66 of [|Buchenwald]. As the end of the war approached, on April 6, 1945, the guards told the prisoners they would no longer be fed, and began evacuating the camp, killing 10,000 prisoners a day. On the morning of April 11, an underground movement rose from within the camp and attacked the SS guards. In early evening, the first American military units arrived and [|liberated] the camp.  Elie is the tall boy. He is 4th from the front on the left side. He is leaving Buchenwald. 

3. Who named Elie to be the chairman of the President's Commission of the Holocaust, and in what year ? []  Elie Wiesel and the president at the time of this awa r  <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 212, 0); font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">d.