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President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as the Chancellor of Germany
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The S.S. open the dachau concentration camp outside of Munich.
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Nazis stage boycotts against Jewish owned businesses.
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Nazis prohibet Jews from owning land.
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Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed.
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Nazis destroy the Nuremberg Synangogue.
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Vladek was taken as a prisoner of war by the Nazis.
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Germany invades Poland, starting WWII.
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Vladek was transferred to the P.O.W. camp.
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Germans establish the first ghetto in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland.
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Vladek escaped the prison camp.
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Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews.
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Three men were hung for being involved in the black market.
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The first ghetto was established in Sosnowiec.
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All the elderly were sent to convalescent homes.
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Himler grants permission for sterilization experiments at Auschwitz.
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The first selection was held.
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The Jews of Sosnewiec were transferred to Srodula.
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Elie Wiesel and his family were packed into train cars and sent to concentration camps.
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Srodula "protects" the Jewish children.
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Elies father died shortly before the concentration camps were eliminated.
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Elie was freed from the brutal camps after 3 years!
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Elies mother, father, and three sisters were segregated into the concentration camps but only two of his sisters made it out.
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Only two of Elies sisters made it out of the Holocaust alive.
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Elie Wiesels autobiography was a New York Times best selling novel!
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Anja, Vladeks loving wife, commits suicide.
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Elie became an Andrew W. Mellon professor in the Humanities department at Boston University.
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President Jimmy Carter appionted Elie Wiesel as chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust.
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Elie won a Nobel Peace Prize and is the worlds spokesman on the Holocaust.
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A 22-year-old Holocaust denier tried to pull Elie into a San Fransisco hotel and attack him.