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WWII begins
Germany invades Poland and thus begins WWII -
Elie meets Moshe
Elie befriends Moshe the beadle, who tells him vivid stories about the universe and God being in the center of it. Moshe helps Elie hone his faith. -
Moshe escapes
Moshe the beadle, who had gotten captured by the gestapo and taken to a slaughter house, had managed to escape back to Sighet to warn the Jews there. -
Arrested
Nazis arrest Jewish leaders and quarantine Jewish citizens. Jews are banned from public transportation and restaurants due to the Star of David they were forced to wear. -
Uprooted
Nazis took Jews from their homes and had them line up at 8 A.M. and 1 P.M. The first group was then departed via train -
Little Ghetto
The Jews are then moved to the Little Ghetto. They try their best to remain positive. The Wiesels find a home and move in and try to settle down -
On the rails again
Elie and the Jews living in the Little Ghetto are moved and are told to form two lines: one for males, another for females. Elie just gets a last glance of his mother and sister before they're gone forever. -
Birkenau
Elie and his father Chlomo arrive and spend the night in the concentration camp Birkenau before being shipped to Auschwitz. There they meet Stein of Antwerp. -
Buna
Elie and Chlomo are marched to Buna, a work factory for Jews who seemed fit for the work there. Elie lies to the S.S. and says he's 18 in order to stay with his father. -
Evacuate!
After having surgery, Elie and Chlomo are forced to run with fellow evacuees to board open-cattle carts and are shipped to Buchenwald -
Liberated
Shortly after the evacuation of the Jews by the Nazis, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz -
Chlomo's death
Chlomo had given up on life by the time they reached Buchenwald. He aquired dysentary and was starving to death when one of the S.S. struck him and took him the to crematory. -
Free at Last
The U.S. Army sweeps in and liberates the Jews from the clutches of the Nazis. Elie suffers from food poisoning. -
End of the War
Surrender signed on American battleship USS Missouri, thus ending the War.