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Elie studies the Kabbalah with Moishe the Beadle.
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Elie Wiesel: Night
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Nazis start killing with gas
The Nazis start to use Zyklon-B, a deadly gas, to kill Jews in Aushwitz and Birkinau. -
Jews are deported to Auschwitz
Nazis report that all Jews have to be transferred to Auschwitz. They start to take nearly all of the Jews, in all of to concentration camps to Auschwitz. -
German Jews banned form public transportation
German Jews are banned from the use of public transportation. -
Number of killed Jews
The New York Times reports that over 1,000,000 Jews have already been killed in concentration camps by the Nazis. -
Dutch Jews deported to Auschwitz
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Hitler visits Auschwitz
Hitler visits Auschwitz. He inspects, and orders four more gas chambers to be built, as he watches two trainloads of Jews be exterminated. -
Food is reduced
Food rations for Jews in Germany is reduced. -
German Jews transported
The first transport of German Jews arrives and Auschwitz. -
Jews resist
The first resistance by Jews occured in the Warsaw ghetto. -
Three gaas chambers open.
Three newly built crematories/gas chambers are built at Auschwitz, over the span of 13 days. -
Dr. Josef Mengele arrives
Dr. Josef Mengele arrives at Aushwitz. -
Berlin cleared of Jews
The Nazis declared the city or Berlin as Judenfrei (cleansed of Jews). -
Treblinka basically shuts down
Treblinka stops all exterminations after over 870,000 deaths. -
Danish help transport Jews
The Danish Underground helps transport about 7,220 Jews to safety in Sweden be boat. -
Jews in Rome are sent to Auschwitz, with little to spare
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Nazis kill Polish Jews
About 42,000 Polish Jews are killed in Operation Harvest Festival. -
Russian troops reach former Polish border.
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Nazis confiscate valuables of Sighet Jews
The Wiesels have all of their valuables taken from them, and are forced to wear the star of david on their chest. -
Athens to Auschwitz
The first transport or Jews from Athens to Auschwitz takes place. -
Sighet Jews line up
Elie and Chlomo are forced to line up on the street at 8 A.M -
Elie's family marches to the "little ghetto"
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Cattle Car
The Wiesels join the last group of deportees aboard a railway cattle car. -
Elie and Chlomo arrive at Birkenau
The Wiesels arrive at Birkenau, where Elie and Chlomo are seperated from the rest of their family. -
Elie and Chlomo march to Buna
Elie is tattooed A-7713 on his left arm, and they are forced to Buna. -
Seperation
When the Wiesels get to Birkenau, they aae seperated by gender. He had to say goodbye forever. -
Russian troops liberate Majdanek.
Russian troops liberate the first concentration camp, Majdanek, where over 360,000 were murdered. -
Himmler destroys crematories.
Himmler orders the destruction of crematories in Auschwitz. -
Nazis conduct death marches
The Nazis conduct death marches to concentration camp inmates. -
Elie's foot swells
Elies foot swells up until he needs surgery -
Elie's surgery
Elie undergoes surgery at the Auschwitz infirmary. -
Elie and Chlomo run with evacuees to Gliewitz
Elie and Chlomo run to Gliewitz, where they were forced onto cattle carsto Buchenwald -
The Red Army
The Red Army liberates Auschwitz. -
Elie's crown
A "dentist" from Warsaw tortures chlomo until Elie gives up his gold crown. -
Chlomo dies in Buchenwald
Chlomo dies from hunger and exhaustion in a bunk in Buchenwald. -
Elie's free
Elie becomes freed after World War II ends. His first instinct is to eat like a madman, where he gets food poisoning and almost dies at the hospital. -
Elie becomes ill
Elie Wiesel falls ill with Food-Poisoning.
