At the age of 15, Elie 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, Auschwitz III-Monowitz. Elie has changed drastically in this book entirely, he has gotten scarred and changed physically and mentally. Reading the book I felt like he has gotten depression throughout the whole story. This whole book is just relating to the topic of him never forgetting the smoke, never forgetting what had scarred him for life, and basically seeing small children get smoked up into flames. The greatest numbers of victims were killed in concentration camps, in which Jews and other enemies of Germany were gathered, imprisoned, forced into labor, they were forced to work in such deplorable, inhumane conditions. Yes, indeed Elie Wiesel has changed dramatically throughout his young years of his life, and he has become a changed man. He was spiritually dead, unemotional, and sensitive, and that is what the holocaust has done to Elie…