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Elie Wiesel is born
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Dachau is established
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Hitler becomes head of Germany
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Germany invades Poland
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Great Britain declares war on Germany
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Auschwitz Concentration Camp ordered to be built
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Hungary, Romania, Slovakia join the German-Italian Alliance
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Elie's family becomes residents of Hungary
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U.S. declares war on Germany
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Elie begins studying the Kabbalah
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Wannasee Conference and the Final Solution
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Germany occupies Hungary
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Elie and his family deported to Auschwitz
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Himmler orders the gas chambers at Auschwitz destroyed
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SS troops evacuate Auschwitz
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Elie's father dies
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Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz
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Buchenwald is liberated and Elie Wiesel is freed
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Germany surrenders
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United Nations establishes genocide as an international crime
