jun 15, 1944 - Elie Wiesel was sent to Buna

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SS-officers sent Elie Wiesel and his father,
Shlomo, to the Auschwitz III-Monowitz
camp (also called “Buna”), a forced-labor
facility several miles from the main
Auschwitz camp. I.G. Farben, a major
German corporation, used prisoner labor at
their Buna Werke factory there, tasking them
with making synthetic rubber (Buna). There they were forced to work in jobs that
were often physically demanding with very
little food. SS officers also conducted
frequent “selections,” sending prisoners who
could no longer work to the gas chambers.

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