Night

Night by Elie Wiesel

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  • Birth of Elie Wiesel

    Elie Wiesel is born in Sighet, Romania, which later becomes Hungarian territory.

  • Hitler comes into power

    Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • All Jews working in government jobs or teaching in universities are fired.

  • The Nazi party is formally declared to be the only political party in Germany.

  • Nuremberg Laws revoke Jewish citizenship and ban intermarriage with Gentiles.

  • Buchenwald concentration camp begins receiving convoys.

  • Hitler evicts German Jews from their homes and forces them into ghettos.

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

    KristallnachtNazis carry out a devastating plan called Kristallnacht (literally, "Crystal Night," or the Night of Broken Glass), which destroys 7500 Jewish-owned stores and synagogues. Jewish children are banned from German schools. Twenty thousand Jews are taken into "protective custody" and sent to concentration camps. Many Jews emigrate.

  • Hitler reveals his intention to annihilate the Jewish race.

  • Nazis confine Jews to ghettos.

  • Nazis confine Jews to ghettos.

  • Nazis massacre 170 Jews in Bucharest

  • Nazis declare Jews outlaws.

  • Twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel meets Moshe the Beadle.

  • Moshe the Beadle escapes Gestapo slaughter to warn the Jews in Sighet.

    Late in the year: Moshe the Beadle escapes Gestapo slaughter to warn the Jews in Sighet. Nazis transport 200,000 Jews to Trans-Dniestria, in the southwestern Ukraine. Two-thirds die of hunger and disease; others depart for Palestine

  • Crematories open at Auschwitz.

  • Nazis arrest Jewish leaders and close synagogues in Sighet.

    Nazis arrest Jewish leaders and close synagogues in Sighet. Jews are quarantined. Nazis confiscate valuables and force Sighet Jews to wear the yellow Star of David and ban them from restaurants, cafes, and public transportation.

  • Elie forced from his home.

    All Sighet Jews are forced from their homes and told to line up in the street at 8 A.M. At 1 P.M., the first group departs by train.

  • Elie's family marches to the "little ghetto."

  • The Wiesels join the last group of deportees aboard a railway cattle car.

  • Elie and Chlomo spend their first night in camp

    The convoy reaches Birkenau, and Elie and Chlomo spend their first night in camp. Summer Guards send Elie and Chlomo to Auschwitz. There, they meet Stein of Antwerp. Elie and Chlomo march to Buna. Elie is tattooed A-7713 on his left arm.

  • Elie undergoes surgery in the Auschwitz infirmary

    Elie undergoes surgery in the Auschwitz infirmary. Chlomo and Elie run with evacuees to Gleiwitz, where they and others board open cattle cars for a ten-day ride to Buchenwald in central Germany.

  • Chlomo Wiesel dies in a bunk at Buchenwald.

  • Elie among group to evcauate Buchenwald.

  • Elie sick from food poisioning.

  • Elie Wiesel comes to the United States.

  • Night is published in English

  • Event

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