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On September 30, Elie Wiesel is born in Sighet, Transylvania. -
Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and the Nazi Party takes control over Germany's government. Dachau, the very first permanent concentration camp is formed. -
The Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews are put into action, robbing Jews of German citizenship. -
Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe. Great Britain, France, and the British Dominions declare war on Germany following immediately after. -
Kristallnacht, the widespread destruction of Jewish synagogues, businesses, and homes takes place. -
In Piotrków, Poland, the very first ghetto is established. The Jewish people are forced to wear armbands with the Star of David in view. -
After Hitler violates the Munich Agreement by both invading and destroying Czechoslovakia, Britain and France guarantee the integrity of Poland's borders. -
Elie Wiesel and his family become moved to and become residents of Hungary. -
Germany conquers Denmark, Norway, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, and the Auschwitz concentration camp, the biggest and most notorious concentration camp, is officially established. -
Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia join the German-Italian alliance, known as the 'Axis'. Ghettos are sealed off in German-occupied Poland by German officers. -
Nazi Germany attacks the Soviet Union. -
Nazi chief Reinhard Heydrich is given the authority to plan and coordinate a solution to the "Jewish Question." -
The US enters World War II. -
Twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel begins studying the Kabbalah. He meets with Moshe the Beadle who helps him study as he dives deeper into his religion. -
Elie arrives at Aushwitz concentration camp. Over three million people were killed here. -
Elie arrives at Buna; a labour camp. -
On Pentecost, the Jewish are shoved onto freight trains and sent off to concentration camps. -
Elie is given the number A-7713. Elie refused to show his tattoo to the public through out his life. -
Elie gets surgery to remove pus from his foot. Soon after, the camp must be evacuated because the Russians are approaching Auschwitz. Elie is given a choice to leave the concentration camp, or stay with his father in the infirmary. Fearing the camp would be blown up, he evacuates the camp. Were Elie to have stayed behind, he would have been liberated by the Russians two days later. -
Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz. -
Elie, while caught in a stampede, finds his friend Juliek. Elie becomes suffocated. When he wakes up, he finds Juliek dead and laid over a broken violin. -
Elie wakes up that morning finding that Chlomo, his father, is gone. He was sent to the crematorium. -
Buchenwald is liberated by US troops, saving 16-year-old Elie and the rest of the Jewish people held in captivity there, -
Germany surrenders. -
World War II in Europe ends. -
The Pacific War ends. Japan surrenders after the atomic bomb was dropped on them in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August from the US. -
Elie releases the book 'Night', telling the story of his life during World War II. -
Elie Wiesel won a Nobel Peace prize for educating the community and world about humanity and fighting evil through his many interviews and books and efforts to create peace.