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Elie introduces Moshie the Beadle
Moshie is one of the poor Jews in Sighet, and is deported before the rest of the Jews in Sighet escape. He soon comes back to tell warn everybody about the what the Nazis were doing to Jews. -
The Germans Arrive
What Moshie the Beadle was true, the German were coming. At first they were auctually pleasent, but it wouldn't last for a long time. -
The Germans strip the Jews of their rights
The Jewish rights were slowly taken away, one at a time. They didn't allow Jews to keep gold or jewlerly in their house, all Jews had to wear yellow star, a curfew was set in place, and eventually where they lived was taken away. -
The Jews were forced into the Ghettos
The Germans forced the Jews into one of two ghettos for Sighet. After a while everyone got used to it, and aucutally began to like it. They organized their own goverment, law enforcement, and even hygine department. -
Wiesel and other families are taken to concentration camps
The Jews were put on a train not knowing where it is headed, many people become scared. One woman starts having horrible visions of people burning, and her son tries to calm her down. Thsi is where Elie really becomes scared of the future ahead. -
Arriving at auschwitz
When the train finaaly arives, everyone is loaded off and forms two lines: Women to the right and Men to the left. This is the last time Elie will ever see his sister and mother. -
A prisoner warns Elie and his father about Ages
After being in the camp for a couple days, a fellow prisoner ask them what there ages are. Elie awnsers 15, and his father 50. The man tells them that if they want to survive they need to say 18 and 40. -
Elie and his father go to Buna
The prisoners were forced to move to Buna because the camp was discovered by enemies, so the prisoners were forced to run from Auschwitz to Buna. -
His name is no longer Elie
After arriving at Auschwitz, all prisoners are tattooed with a barcode and a number for identification. "The three 'veteran'
prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left
arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name.(page 42)" -
Elie is asked to sacrifice his shoes
After being in Buna, the Head of the camp's assistant ask Elie if he would like to be in a good Unit, and he responded with, "I certainly do. But on one condition: I want to stay with my father. (page 46)" The young assistant tells Elie that he can make that happen, all he has to do is give him his shoes. Elie refuses because it is all he has left. The assistant even tells hem he can get him extra food, but he still refuses. The shoes were later taken away with nothing in return. -
The Doctor wants Elie's Gold Teeth
Since arriving at the new camp, the prisoners are subjected to do a mediacal examination. When Elie goe in all the Doctor says is are you good health, anf then says to open thier mouthes so he can inspect. He wasn't really looking for bad teeth but gold crowns. He saw Elie's and write his name to a list. -
Elie and his father begin working in the warehouse
After being checked by the Doctor, Elie and his father started working in the warehouse where the counted inventory. They were very lucky because this was most likely the easiest work, and they were both together. -
Idek beats Elie
One day Idek is letting off steam and just begins to beat Elie to relieve his anger. Elie does not speak or say anything when he is being beat, so Idek beats him some more. This is where he meets a young girl who he later meets again after the holocaust. -
Air Raid upon the camp
Nazi enemies, the Polish, begin dropping bombs on the concentration camp. The Jews become hopeful and begin to see hope for their liberty. This seemed to be the most happy the Jews had been since arrivning at camp. -
Hanging of the theif
During the air raid, a prisoner was caught stealing goods. The whole camp was called into the center to see him be hung. His last words were, "Curse upon Germany. Long live liberty!" -
Hanging #2
Three people were accused of tinkering with the electrical plant which provided power to the prison. One of the individuals was a young boy. While Elie and the other prisoners had become immune to death, this one touched them. While the two men died almost instantly, the boy was still so young and light that it took him nearly half an hour to die. -
Elie gives up beliefs in God
It is near the religious time for jews where there are supposed to fast, but Elie continues to eat because he can not understand what kind of God would make his people go through something like that. From this point on he hardly mentions God. -
Germans has mercy during Christmas and New Years
During Christmas and New Years, the Jews don't have to work, and they receive better tasting soup. -
Elie goes to the Doctor for foot issues
Elie's foot has been very swollen and he must go to see the Doctor becasue it got to the pint where he couldn't walk. In the hospital it is so much different than what he was used too: sheets on the bed, more food, and better soup. -
Surgery is needed on Elie's foot
The Doctor does surgery on Elie's foot, and everything went as smooth as possible. Elie thought he lost his leg. -
Elie gets out of hospital before it is too late
When he's in the hospital recovering of his surgery, he over hears some officers talking about the Russians getting close. Elie thinks that the will begin to speed up the killing process, including wiping out anyone left in the hospital. Elie escapes out of the hospital and returns back to his block and joins up with his father. Later he finds out that the killed everyone left in the Hospital shortly after he left. -
The march
The Russians were getting very close now, so the Germans had all prisoners being to march. Anyone that could not keep up was killed, either by the Nazis or being trampled upon. They finally stop to rest at an abandoned town, here Elie and his father rest in an old shed. Elie's father was fading in and out of life and death, but he finally overcomes it and stays alive. The next day, they begin to march again. -
Arriving at Gleiweitz
After marching many miles, the prisoners arrive in another camp, Gleiweitz. They rushed to the Barracks to rest, where there were many dead bodies. They stay here for three days without food or water, waiting to be transfered to other camps. -
The train ride
Now Elie and the other prisoners are moving to a new camp, fortunantley, this time they don't have to run the whole way. They do however, have to ride on a train for 10 days without food and small rations of water. -
Arriving at Buchenwald
Out of the hundred people that got on the train, only 12 got off alive, including Elie and his father. Instead of going to take a shower with the others, Elie is trying to keep his father from fading out of life. He keeps him alive that night bringing him coffee. -
Elie's Father dies
Elie kept his father alive as long as possible but he got dysentery earlier. "I awoke at January 29 at dawn. In my father (bunk) placed lay another idividual." He believes that the Officers took him to the crematorium. -
America to the rescue
Finally, Americans were closing in on the camps, so the Nazis began to clean out prisoners as fast as possible, forming rows of people just to shoot. A day later American forces overthrew the camp, freeing the Jews. No thoughts of revenge ever came across anyone.
