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Born in Sighet, Transylvania
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Liberated; April 11, 1945
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Hitler invaded Poland then France and Britian declared war on Germany. Germany then attacked France and in 1940 was taken over.
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This concentration camp killed at least 1,100,000 people.
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Sub-camp of Sachsenhausen.
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Four million troops poured over the Russian border. Within one month, over two and half million Russians had been killed, wounded or captured. The Germans made tremendous advances into Russia – into portions of Moscow, Leningrad, and Stalingrad. And then winter hit. The Germans were caught in summer uniforms, and it was a bitter, cold winter that year. Stalin, using sheer force of numbers, threw another two million soldiers at the Germans.
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Japanese bombed the U.S. as a preventive act to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with the military actions of Empire of Japan.
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A four day battle fought between aircraft based on giant aircraft carriers, the U.S. destroyed hundreds of Japanese planes and regained control of the Pacific. The Japanese continued to fight on, however, even after the war in Europe ended.
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Wiesel, his family and the rest of the town were placed in one of the two ghettos in Sighet. Wiesel and his family lived in the larger of the two, on Serpent Street
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On May 16, 1944, the Hungarian authorities allowed the German army to deport the Jewish community in Sighet to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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General Dwight Eisenhower led U.S. and Allied troops in an invasion of Normandy, France. The armies fought their way through France and Belgium and into Germany while Russian troops fought from the east. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered.
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The Japanese fought on even after the war in Europe ended. Truman decided to use the newly developed atomic bomb to end the war quickly and prevent more U.S. casualties. The Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, killing about 78,000 people and injuring 100,000 more. On August 9, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, killing another 40,000 people.
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Elie became involved with Irgun, translating articles from Hebrew to Yiddish for its periodicals.
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Born in Stockholm, Sweden
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Attended Harpur College. While there, he worked as staff cartoonist for the college newspaper, and edited a college humor magazine
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Nobel Peace Prize. Wiesel had delivered a powerful message of peace, atonement and human dignity to humanity
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Contributing Artist for The New Yorker. He also did stories like Ball Buster and A Family Movie.
