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Elie Wiesel was born
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IN 1941 Elie gives background about his family (Father, mother, three sisters) and he tells us about him meeting Moishe the Beadle and learning Kabbalah
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In 1942 the foreign Jews were Expelled from Sighet including Moishe the Beadle. Towards the end of the year Moishe came back and told of the great misfortune that happened to the Jews. Nobody believed him
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In the spring of 1944 the Germans came to town and invaded Sighet. They were nice to everyone at first
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There were two ghettos in sighet that were formed in Sighet. There was barbed wire and blacked out windows. The ghettos were eventually liquidated and they had to be moved to other ones. Some people went directly to concentratin camps
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They moved from concentration camp to concentration camp and they had delirious people in the cars with them
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Eventually they started to hang people for this misdoings
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They finally arrive in Auschwitz and he sees his mother and little sister for the last time ever. They start to realize the harsh conditions in the camps.
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They start to get beaten and realize what the camps are really like. They don't do much and then they eventually get transfered to Buna
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They get assigned jobs and Elie is still with his father. Elie had to give up his crown or risk getting beaten by others. Camps were really hard for his father and him
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Around Rosh Hashana Elie starts to lose faith and he stops praying. During Yom Kippur he doesn't fast like he's suppose to and he loses faith
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The SS officers pick through the group of people to see who should be executed and who should not. Elie and his father are not sent to the crematoria
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In the winter the men are all moved to another camp, because the Russians take over Buna
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They tried to move prisoners out of the camp so they could liquidate it. On the 10th the Americans finally came
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They had to march away from their camp and eventually they had to start running. If they fell behind then they were shot. They didn't stop for a long time until they reached an abandoned village. Many people died in the snow before they had to leave for the next place
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They arrived to a new camp and many were trampled. They were not loud food or water. After three days they were thrown on a train of many wagons. After a certain amount of time they threw out the dead people and kept going.
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They arrived at new camps and Elie and his father were separated. they finally got to sleep but Elie's father became very sick. Elie grudgingly gave him some of his rations. On January 28, 1945 his dad had died
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Night was published in 1958
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They have their first son in 1972
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Wiesel has recieved may awards in his life
