How did Elie Wiesel survive the Holocaust?

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Elie Wiesel survived the Holocaust through a series of harrowing experiences and transfers between concentration camps. He, his parents, and sisters were deported to Auschwitz in 1944, where his mother and one sister perished. Wiesel and his father were then sent to Buna-Monowitz, a labor camp within the Auschwitz complex. In January 1945, they were forced on a death march to Buchenwald, where his father died shortly before Wiesel's liberation in April 1945.1