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Elie Wiesel was born
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Hitler becomes chancellor
President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany. -
Boycott
Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Germany. -
Adolf Hitler is appointed to chancellor of Germany
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Germans march
German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland. -
Vladek and Anja get married
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Richieu is born
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Vladek is drafted to fight with the polish army
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Vladek was captured by the german army and him into a prisoner
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The Soviet Union
The Soviet Union occupies Poland from the east. -
Vladek is released from being a prisoner of germany
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Elie meets Moishe the Beadle
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Order "all jews of sosnowiec must be relocated into the stara sosnowiec quarter by jan. 1st, 1942. non-jews will be moved into vacated premises."
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Shootings begin
Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno. -
Vladeks parents are sent to Auschwitz to gas chambers
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cohn was hung
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Moshe the beadle escapes
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Tosha poisens herself and the 3 children: Bibi, Lonia, Richeiu
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Anja and Vladek are found by Gespato and sent to Auschwitz
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Wiesel family arrives at Birkendall, Poland
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The Jews in Sighet were banished to a ghetto
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Sighet Jews were packed into cattle cars and sent to Birkenau
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In the concentration camp Elie was taken away from his mother and sisters
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surgery for Elie
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Elie moves to the U.S
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Anja kills herself