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Elie Wiesel is born in Sighet, Transylvania
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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany and the Nazi party takes control of Germany's government
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The first permanent concentration camp, Dachau, is established.
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Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews are decreed, depriving Jews of German citizenship.
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Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe.
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Elie Wiesel and his family become residents of Hungary
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Twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel begins studying the Kabbalah.
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Nazi Germany attacks the Soviet Union on June 22
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Elie Wiesel is fifteen years old when he and his family are deported in May 1944 by the Hungarian gendarmerie and the German SS and police from Sighet to Auschwitz.
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Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz
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U.S. troops liberate Buchenwald
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World War II in Europe ends
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Elie Wiesel studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. He becomes interested in journalism.
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Elie Wiesel goes to Jerusalem for the first time.