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Elie is born in Sighet
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japan invades manchuria
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adolf hitler becomes the Fuhrer of germany. also the first concentration camp named Dachau was made.
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Nuremburg race laws against jews are made, taking away their citizenship
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the summer Olympics are held in berlin
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Japan invades China
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germany invades poland and starts WW2 in europe
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Elie Wiesel and his family are part of hungary now
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nazi germany attacks the soviet union
Twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel begins studying the Kabbalah. -
germany occupies hungary
Elie Wiesel is fifteen years old when he and his family are deported in May 1944 by the Hungarian gendarmerie and the German SS and police from Sighet to Auschwitz. -
Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz
SS units evacuate Auschwitz in January. Elie and his father are transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar Germany. Elie's father dies in January -
Elie is liberated with the arrival of U.S. troops in April.