Night

Night: Eliezer Wiesel's Journey

By polcyncarly14
  • Elie Wiesel is born

    Elie Wiesel is born

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    Elie's journey

  • The Nazie Party takes power in Germany

    Hitler becomes prime minister, and liberties of citizens are suspended. the first concentration camp was set up at Dachau, which held communists.
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    Germans in WWII

  • Hitler becomes leader of Germany

  • Jews in Germany are deprived of rights

    Persecution is great, many "racially inferior" groups were sent to concentration camps.

  • Olympic games are held in Germany

    Jews were not allowed to attend the games.

  • German troops annex Austria

    Nazis physically attack jews and racially inferior people.

  • WWII begins in Europe

    Germany invades Poland and takes over Czecholsolvakia. Hitler orders systematic of disabled people.

  • Nazi terrors take hold

    German jews are deported to Poland, jews are forced into Ghettos, and Germany continues conquering nations.

  • Germany attacks the Soviet Union

    European jews are forced into ghettos and camps. The first death camp at Chelmno begins opperations. Germany declares war on the US

  • Elie meets Moishe the Beadle

  • Final Solution is turned over to the bureaucracy

    Five more death camps are in opperation. Ghettos empty as thousands enter death camps. Word reaches US, Britian, and the Soviet Union.
  • German troops invade Sighet

    German troops invade Sighet

  • Elie and his family are expelled from the ghetto, and moved to Birkenau

  • Elie and his father arrive in Auschwitz

  • Elie and his father move to Buna

  • Elie's father dies of dysentary

  • American troops arrive in Buna

  • The holocaust is over.

    1/3 of the world's Jews were murdered and the survivors were left homeless.

  • Elie was liberated from his concentration camp

  • Nazi leaders are tried for war and humanity crimes