may 24, 1944 - Elie Wiesel Given Tattoo
Description:
"I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name." page 42.He describes it in only a few words, Barely 2 sentences, and yet it carries so much weight. it gives us a look at just how demeaning and traumatizing it was for them. They had been kicked out of their homes, town, country, separated from their families, and now stripped of their name, the last thing remaining of their legal identities.
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Date:
may 24, 1944
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~ 81 years ago