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Moishe the Beadle
Elie, 13 years old, (not introduced yet) is describing a man he met in 1941. Everyone of the jews, including them, were kicked out of Sighet. They would both read together and Elie believed that Moishe would help him enter eternity. -
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Night by Elie Wiesel
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Moishe gone mad
What was once "awkward as a clown" now became an insane man. It lures Elie to question why Moishe wants people to believe his tales he shares as a warning to them. -
Bomb droppings
Elie would listen to news on the radio about daily bombings of Germany and Stalingard for the preparation of the Second Front. -
Year of 1943
As Elie continued on his studies, Talmud during the day and Kabbalah at night, his family were pretty occupied themselves. His father was busy with his business, his granfather came to celebrate Rebbe of Borsche, and his mother was thinking about finding someone for Hilda. It was then, when they had found out that Germany were guaranteed to lose the war. -
Two Ghettos
Two ghettos were created in Sighet, and bit by bit life was returning to Elie's kind of "normal." Even though "normal" involved barbed wire keeping them from going past the fence. -
Eight Days of Passover
There were edicts that had been for the Jews and also had many restrictions. They were foreced to live in the ghettos and wear yellow stars. -
Jews begin to be deported
The departures would be taken place street by street and later end up in Auschwitz, where the Wiesel family would be deported. Elie was 15 years old during the occurence. May 1944, the convoy reached Birkneau where, just, Elie and his father were sent to Auschwitz. The girls of the family were taken to the gas chambers. -
Hangings
Everyday, there would be daily hangings of the Jewish men and Elie had gotten used to seeing it. However, a particular hanging had caused him to question his faith even more. The hanging of a small child from Warsaw, had had a huge affect on Elie. -
Buna
Elie and his father march to Buna where they are given their new identification numbers. Elie was now known as A-7713. -
Summer 1944
Elie decides to not eat on Yom Kippur, hoping his death can come closer to him -
Long Live Liberty!
Even SS officers weren't too sure about hanging a little boy. Nevertheless, they still did and two prisoners kept chanting, "long live liberty" as well as questioning God. -
Elie's surgery
Due to puss growing from his right foot, Elie needed to have surgery on it, according to Doctor Mengele. -
Evacuation
The camp was being evacuated due to war so Elie and his father decide to run away with the other prisoners , thinking that it would save themselves. Liberators from Russia acyually came and Elie and his father could have been freed if they stayed. The prisoners traveled miles and end up in an abandoned village. -
April
April 10, it was decided that the remaining Jews were to be killed by the Nazis in Buchenwald. April 11 at 6 o'clock, the American tank came to free the surviving prisoners. -
Train
Elie is taken to a field, traveling on a train for 10 days during a horrendoes winter. Desperate for food, the prisoners will doing anything, even kill, to get some bread that is thrown at them. -
Elie's father becomes sick
Elie's father becomes very ill and weak; so weak that he has no effort to survive anymore. He then gets beat up a a few times and Elie can do nothing, but just watch. January 29, his father is taken to the crematory. Elie does not cry because he is too ashamed to; he rather feels relief.
