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Elie Wiesel is born in Transylvania, Romania
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Elie meets Moshe the Beadle
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Moshe escapes the Nazies and warns the Jews about the cruelty that is to come.
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Nazies confiscate Jewish family's valuables, make them wear the yellow star of david, and ban them from the public
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Elie's family moves to the small ghetto
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Elie's family leaves there town and aboard a railway car.
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Elie reaches Birkenau, Guards send Elie and his father to Auschwitz. The last time he sees his mother and sister. Elie and his father march to Buna. Elie is tattooed A-7713.
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Elie goes to the infirmary for his foot. Elie and his father run to Gleiwitz, where they ride in cattle cars for 10 days to Buchenwald.
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Auschwitz is liberated
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Elie's father dies
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Elie had no thought of remorse or really any thoughts at all, except for food.
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Elie is set free by U.S. troops