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Moshe the Beadle's warning
Moshe the Beadle warns the Sighet Jews that horrors are coming for them in the form of brutality. Elie doesn't listen. -
Period: to
Elie explores Jewish faith and religion
Elie celebrates his Bar Mitzvah -
Sighet Jews forced into two separate ghettos
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The Wiesel's are deported on cattle cars
The Wiesel's are amongst the last deportees to leave the ghettos -
Separation from Mum and Sister
When they reach Auschwitz, Sarah and Tzipora are taken from Elie and Schlomo. -
Loss of identity
A-7713 is tattooed on Elie Wiesel's arm -
Put into sub camp Buna
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Transported to Buchenwald after liberation of Auschwitz
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Death of Schlomo Wiesel
He was injured and weak -
Arrive at Gleiwitz camp
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Liberated with the arrival of US troops
Elie leaves concentration camps forever