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1941
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1941 in Sighet, Transylvania. Eliezer Wiesel is a 12 year old boy who studies the Talmud and Jewish mystical text of the kabbalah. His teacher, Moishe, who teaches Eliezer the kabbalah warns the town of a soon to be tragedy and the things he has seen and experienced.
1944
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1944, The Hungarian government was overthrown by fascists, now occupied by Germans. German forces move into Sighet, seemingly well behaved at first, they soon input their tyrannical rules upon the Jews.
The Jews were later herded into confined ghettos, soon to be deported to concentration camps.
1944
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1944, the journey to Auschwitz was done under inhumane conditions. Once at the Czechoslovakian border, the Jews realized they weren't just going to be relocated. A woman, Madame Schächter foreshadows the crematoriums of Auschwitz, like Moishe, her pleads were dismissed.
1944
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Once at Auschwitz-Birkenau, prisoners are chosen for selection, sent to prison or to burn. This is the last time Eliezer sees his Mother and his youngest sister. Eliezer and His father are chosen to go left, straight to the crematorium. Near death, Eliezer and his father are saved by pure luck, and remember the words of Madame Schächter.
1944 - 1945
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Eliezer is stripped of his humanity. Eliezer is shaven bald, tattooed with a number and treated as subhuman. As a prisoner Eliezer witnesses a public hanging of a child, he believes that God has died alongside this child. Rumors of Russian soldiers approaching gave Eliezer hope while recovering in the hospital. With chances of being executed, Eliezer and his father evacuate with the rest of the prisoners.
1945
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In the harsh cold of winter, Eliezer and his Father are running in the snow. Eliezer and his father come across a shed to rest in. Keeping one another awake, Rabbi Eliahou comes in and asks if any of the two have seen his son. Eliezer says he hasn't seen him, but soon finds himself remembering that the Rabbi's son had abandoned his Father during the chaos of the march. It was too late, Rabbi Eliahou had already left. Eliezer prayed to never do the same that Rabbi Eliahou's son had done to his Father.
1945 - 1/29/1945
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The Journey to Buchenwald, has fatally depleted Eliezer father's strength. It seems like he has given up the will to live. The air raid alert causes Eliezer to leave his father outside. In the morning Eliezer begrudgingly looks for his Father. He is having thoughts of abandoning his Father to conserve his own strength. He feels immense guilt. He comes across his father by pure coincidence. Eliezer's Father has dysentery, Eliezer tries to find medical help to no avail. He is told to give up his Father. On Jan 29, 1945 Eliezer has found out that his Father had been taken to the crematorium, he feels relief to his own shame.
4/5/1945 - 4/11/1945
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Eliezer remained in Buchenwald, nothing mattered to him after his father's death. He didn't dwell on thinking about his family, only the desire to eat. With the American army approaching, the SS planned to evacuate and exterminate the remaining Jews. On the day of evacuation a resistance movement took place and drove the remaining SS guards.
Eventually an American tank came to liberate Buchenwald.
4/14/1945 - 2 weeks
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Once Liberation came, food was a prominent desire, no thoughts of the revenge only food. Three days had passed since liberation and Eliezer became deathly ill from food poisoning. He was bedridden for two weeks. One day he decides to look into the hospital mirror, he hasn't seen his reflection since the ghettos. "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me."