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German Troops let in to Hungary
The news passed from Budapest that the Facist party and the soldiers are attacking the Jews and having anti-semitism movements. However, the Jews of Sighet soon thought that the farthest the troops stay in Budapest. -
Facist Party coes into power in Hungary
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German troops came to Sighet
The first impressions of the German soldiers to the Jews were friendly -
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Passover
Jewish holiday regarding the liberation from Egypt -
Jewish are required to wear a yellow star
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Ghettos were set in SIghet
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Elie's father is summoned for council
He brings home the news of deportation. He can not give out much information other than being able to bring one pack of things per person, for he had been threathened to be shooted. -
first convoy leaves the Ghetto
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Last convoy leaves the Ghetto
Elie and his family is transported to the Small Ghetto -
Expulsion from the small Ghetto
They had to wait in the synagogue for 24 hours until they were forced to be transported in wagons -
arrived in Birkenau
Elie and his father are separated from his mom and his sisters
they go through the first selection -
Elie and his father are transported to Auchwitz
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Meets Stein
Elie tells stein that his wife and his kids are alive. Stein often brings them food until they hear from him no longer -
Elie and his father are sent to Buna
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Idek beats up Elie's father
while loading Diesel engine trains, Idek hits Elie's father with an iron bar, Elie is only watching -
Elie is whipped.
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Elie lost his gold crown
Franek noticed Elie's gold crown and hit Elie's father until Elie gave in -
Air Raid
American Planes had bombed Buna for several hours. Before the raid began, Elie saw a man crawling toward the cauldrons -
The man had tried to get to the cauldrons is hanged
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The little boy and 2 men are hanged
The boy is hanged for being the Dutch Oberkapo's pipel. while the other men had died immediately as the chairs were tipped from underneath, the boy struggled for a while until he finally died -
Rosh Hashanah
A Jewish Holiday
Durign the service for this holiday Elie had questioned the God for the existence of the concentration caps and all that he had seen -
Yom Kippur
The Jewish holiday of fasting
Elie had eaten his rations to please his father and as an act of defiance towards the god -
Elie's father has to go through a decisive selection
After the selection, where the prisoners were required to run, Elie and his father had thought safe until his father had to stay in the camp to go through a decisive selection. The father gives Elie his inheritence.
His father had passsed through this selection, however, Akiba Drumer had been selected -
Elie had beenin hospital because of his foot
While he was in the hospital, the rumour had spread that the front was drawing near. Afraid to have his father leave alone and of being cremated, Elie had evacuated from the camp like other prisoners despite his leg -
Elie sees Zalman fall
the prisoners were to run in the snow and anyone who falls behind were to be shot.
Zalman has a stomachache and falls on the path. -
They stop at the Brick factory
elie and his father rely on each other to keep living. Many of the prisoners die.
Rabbi Eliahou ask for his son and Elie realize that his son had deserted his father to live. Elie thinks to himself that he will keep by his father -
Elie sees Juliek being crushed onto the ground
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Elie finds Juliek dead and his violin smashed
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selection
Elie's father was selected and when they tried to get to each other, the prisoners lost order and Elie's father was able to switch sides -
The convoy left gleiwitz
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The convoy arrived at Buchenwald
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Elie's father dies
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Elie is liberated by the American tanks in Buchenwald
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Elie Wiesel recieves nobel peace prize