night project

Elie Wiesel is born in Sighet, Transylvania

Sep 30, 1928

Elie meets Moshe the beadle

1941

Moshe tries to warn the jews about what's happening

1941

"He [Moishe] told me what had happened to him and his companions. The train with the deportees had crossed the Hungarian border and, once in Polish territory, had been taken over by the Gestapo. The train had stopped. The Jews were ordered to get off and onto waiting trucks..."

ghettos are introduced

1941

Elie Wiesel (12) begins studying the Kabbalah

1941

Elie's family arrives at Birkenau where he's separated from his mom and sisters

May 1, 1944

""Men to the left! Women to the right!" Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight simple, short words. Yet that was the moment when I left my mother."

on the way to Auschwitz, madam Sachtcher has epsiodes about fires and they arrive and actually see what she was talking about

Jun 1, 1944

Here is when Wiesel sees a young boy hanged with three other men

1945

He begins to question god. "For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for"

Elie's father is taken to the crematory

Jan 29, 1945

""I woke up at dawn on January 29th. On my father's cot there lay another sick person. They must have taken him away before daybreak and taken him to the crematorium. Perhaps he was still breathing. No prayers were said over his tomb..."

americans force start liberating the camps

Apr 5, 1945

american forces free all remaining jews

May 11, 1945

Elie writes Night, a book based on his experience

1954