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The Nazis start to use Zyklon-B, a deadly gas, to kill Jews in Aushwitz and Birkinau.
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Nazis report that all Jews have to be transferred to Auschwitz. They start to take nearly all of the Jews, in all of to concentration camps to Auschwitz.
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German Jews are banned from the use of public transportation.
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The New York Times reports that over 1,000,000 Jews have already been killed in concentration camps by the Nazis.
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Hitler visits Auschwitz. He inspects, and orders four more gas chambers to be built, as he watches two trainloads of Jews be exterminated.
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Food rations for Jews in Germany is reduced.
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The first transport of German Jews arrives and Auschwitz.
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The first resistance by Jews occured in the Warsaw ghetto.
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Three newly built crematories/gas chambers are built at Auschwitz, over the span of 13 days.
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Dr. Josef Mengele arrives at Aushwitz.
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The Nazis declared the city or Berlin as Judenfrei (cleansed of Jews).
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Treblinka stops all exterminations after over 870,000 deaths.
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The Danish Underground helps transport about 7,220 Jews to safety in Sweden be boat.
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About 42,000 Polish Jews are killed in Operation Harvest Festival.
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The Wiesels have all of their valuables taken from them, and are forced to wear the star of david on their chest.
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The first transport or Jews from Athens to Auschwitz takes place.
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Elie and Chlomo are forced to line up on the street at 8 A.M
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The Wiesels join the last group of deportees aboard a railway cattle car.
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The Wiesels arrive at Birkenau, where Elie and Chlomo are seperated from the rest of their family.
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Elie is tattooed A-7713 on his left arm, and they are forced to Buna.
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When the Wiesels get to Birkenau, they aae seperated by gender. He had to say goodbye forever.
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Russian troops liberate the first concentration camp, Majdanek, where over 360,000 were murdered.
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Himmler orders the destruction of crematories in Auschwitz.
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The Nazis conduct death marches to concentration camp inmates.
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Elies foot swells up until he needs surgery
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Elie undergoes surgery at the Auschwitz infirmary.
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Elie and Chlomo run to Gliewitz, where they were forced onto cattle carsto Buchenwald
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The Red Army liberates Auschwitz.
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A "dentist" from Warsaw tortures chlomo until Elie gives up his gold crown.
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Chlomo dies from hunger and exhaustion in a bunk in Buchenwald.
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Elie becomes freed after World War II ends. His first instinct is to eat like a madman, where he gets food poisoning and almost dies at the hospital.
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Elie Wiesel falls ill with Food-Poisoning.