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Elie Wiesel is born
Elie Wiesel is the author of Night, and was born in Poland
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The first concentration camp Dachau is established
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Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
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Nazi's take control of German Government
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The Nuremberg Race Laws deprive Jews of German citizenship
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Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by initiating a draft
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German Gestapo are granted more power than Government
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Japan invades China, starting what would become a significant part of WWII
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Kristallnacht occurs: widespread destruction of Jewish homes and stores
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Germany makes alliance with Austria republic
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Germany makes alliance with Austria republic
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Germany invades Poland, beginning war in Europe
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The first Ghetto is established in Piotrkow Poland, under German control, Polish Jews are forced to wear yellow stars of David for Identification
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Elie Wiesel and his family become citizens of Hungary
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Auschwitz death camp is developed
Auschwitz is where Elie Wiesel was imprisoned during the Holocaust
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Hungary, Slovakia and Romania join the Axis powers
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Elie Wiesel meets Moishe the Beetle
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Elie begins studying the Kabbalah
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The Axis powers agree on final solution; to destroy all Jews.
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The Wannsee Conference held in Berlin, Germany assured the full cooperationof S.S., state, and Nazi parties to kill all Jews in Europe (The Final Solution)
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Moishe escapes the Gestapo to warn Jews in Sighet of the Death Camps
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Warsaw Ghetto prisoners rise up to opressors
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Elie and his family are deported from their home
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Germany occupies Hungary and 440,000 Hungarian Jews are sent to Auschwitz
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Elie's convoy reaches Burkenau and is tattood A-7713
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Elie and his father arrive in Buchenwald
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Elie and his father are evacuated from Auschwitz.
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Elie under goes surgery for his foot.
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Elie's father dies
He dies of Dysentary
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Elie gets liberated by American troops at Buchenwald
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Elie publishes the english version of Night
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