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NIght time line by Austin wade

Created by rizen1 on Feb 9, 2011

Last updated: 02/15/11 at 01:30 PM

• Elie is awarded The Nobel Peace prize
  1986

• Wiesels establish Foundation for Humanity
  1986

• Awarded Congressional Gold metal of Achievment
  1985

• "Night" is published
  1958

• Elie is hit by a car while in New York City
  1956

• Elie decides to write about the holocaust
  1954

• Elie moves to france and works in journalism
  1948

  Elie moves to france and works in journalism

• Chlomo Wiesel dies in a bunk at Buchenwald.
  Jul 1, 1945

• Elie falls ill with food poisoning. Elie is liberated with the arrival of U.S. troops
  Apr 1945

• The red army liberates Auschwitz
  Jan 18, 1945

• Elie undergoes surgery in the Auschwitz infirmary.
  Jan 1945

  Elie undergoes surgery in the Auschwitz infirmary. Chlomo and Elie run with evacuees to Gleiwitz, where they and others board open cattle cars for a ten-day ride to Buchenwald in central Germany.

• The Wiesels join the last group of deportees aboard a railway cattle car.
  May 19, 1944

• Elie's family marches to the "little ghetto
  May 17, 1944

  To the left is a picture taken of Elie and his sisters

• All Sighet Jews are forced from their homes
  May 16, 1944

  All Sighet Jews are forced from their homes and told to line up in the street at 8 A.M. At 1 P.M., the first group departs by train.

• Nazis arrest Jewish leaders and close synagogues in Transylvania
  Apr 1944

  Nazis arrest Jewish leaders and close synagogues in Transylvania. Jews are quarantined. Nazis confiscate valuables and force transylvainian Jews to wear the yellow Star of David and ban them from restaurants, cafes, and public transportation.

• Moshe the Beadle escapes Gestapo slaughter to warn the Jews in Sighet.
  1942

• Elie Wiesel meets Moshe the Beadle.
  Dec 27, 1941

  To the left is a picture of Elie wiesel as a young man

• Kristallnacht
  Nov 9, 1939

  Nazis carry out Kristallnacht, which destroys 7500 Jewish-owned stores and synagogues. Jewish children are banned from German schools. Many Jews emigrate.

• Nazis carry out Kristallnacht,
  Nov 9, 1938

  Nazis carry out Kristallnacht, which destroys 7500 Jewish-owned stores and synagogues. Jewish children are banned from German schools. Many Jews emigrate.

• Elie Wiesel is born in Transylvania, Romania
  Sep 30, 1928