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Elie's Life
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Elie's Birthdate
Elie is born in Transylvania, Romania -
Elie meets Moshe the Beadle
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Moshe eacapes from the Gestapo
Moshe the Beadle escapes Gestapo to warn the Jews in Sighet. -
Nazis invade Elie's hometown
Jews rights were basically taken away and had to start wearing the Star of David. Also not allowed to go to most places anymore. -
All Jews are forced from thier homes
All Jews are forced from their homes. The first group departs by train. -
Elie's family is deported
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Elie arrives at camp
Late May: They reache Birkenau, and Elie and his father spend their first night in camp. Guards send Elie and his father to Auschwitz. -
Elie has surgery
Elie undergoes surgery in the Auschwitz infirmary. Elie and his father run with evacuees to Gleiwitz, where they and others board open cattle cars for a ten-day ride to Buchenwald. -
Auschwitz is liberated
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Elie's father dies
Elie's father dies in his bunk at Buchenwald. -
Elie is set free
Elie gets sick with food poisoning after he is liberated by the arrival of U.S. troops.