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Eliezer Wiesel is a 14 year old Jewish boy in 1944.

Jewish boyEliezer Wiesel

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He lives with his three(3) sisters and parents.

parents3 sisters

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He lives in a Jewish community in the small town

of Sighet in Hungarian Transylvania.

Sighet, HungarySmall town

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Eliezer likes to learn things so he studies a lot.

Likes to learnEliezer Wiesel

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He studies the TORAHthe first of five(5) books

of the Old Testament.

The TorahEliezer studies

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He also studies the CABBALAA doctrine of Jewish Mysticism.

The CabbalaHe studies

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His teacher is an old, poor, wise man from the village named Moshe the Beadle.

Moshe the BeadleHis old, wise teacher

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One day Moshe got expelled from the town.

Got kicked out of town

Moshe the Beadle

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A few months later, Moshe returned to the town.

Came back to town

Moshe the Beadle

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He told everyone about the bad things that happened to him.

Bad things happenedHe told everyone

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He told them that he was shot in the leg and he escaped.

He escapedShot in the Leg

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He tried to warn everyone that danger was on its way.

About danger He warned people

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Nobody believed that Moshe was telling the truth.

Believed himNobody

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Soon after that, the German troops came into Hungary and took over.

troopsGerman

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All of the Jewish people in Sighet were forced into ghettos.

In GhettosJewish people

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Eliezer’s family was forced into Ghettos.

In GhettosEliezer’s family

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Then, Eliezer’s family and everyone else were herded onto cattle cars on a train.

onto cattle carsEliezer’s family

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The were on the cramped cars for days without much food.

without foodSpent days

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They finally arrived at Birkenau, the gateway to Auschwitz.

Birkenau campThey arrived

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Eliezer and his father were separated from his mother and his sisters and never saw them again.

Never saw mother or sisters again

Eliezer and father

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Eliezer and his father are stripped, shaved, disinfected, and treated very meanly.

Treated meanlyshaved

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They are marched from Birkenau to the main camp, Auschwitz.

Marched to AuschwitzMany people

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Since they are both healthy, the are put to work by the Nazi’s.

Put to workhealthy

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They are taken to Buna, a work camp.

Buna, work camp

Eliezer and father

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Eliezer is put to work in an electrical-fittings factory.

Electrical factoryEliezer works

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All of the Jews in the camps are treated like slaves and beaten.

beatenTreated like slaves

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One of the mean soldiers makes Eliezer give him his gold tooth.

His GOLD toothEliezer gives

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The prisoners are forced to watch their friends and family being hurt by the Nazi’s.

Watch friends getting hurt

The prisoners

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Some of the prisoners become worried about their own survival and do mean things to people in they love.

MeanWorried

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After months in a camp, Eliezer has his foot operated on.

Operated onEliezer’s foot

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The Nazi’s evacuated camp because the Russians were coming.

Russians are coming

Nazi’s evacuate

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In the middle of a snowstorm, the prisoners began a death march.

Prisoners marchSnowstorm

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After running more than 50 miles to a camp, many of the prisoners died from the harsh weather and exhaustion.

Bad weatherPrisoners die

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At Gleiwitz, they were herded into cattle cars once again.

Onto cattle carsPrisoners

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One hundred Jews boarded the cars but only 12 lived.

Jewish peopleOne hundred

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The train went to the concentration camp in Buchenwald.

BuchenwaldCattle car train

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Eliezer’s father dies when they get to Buchenwald.

diedEliezer father

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The American Army finally liberated the camp on April 11, 1945.

Liberated campAmerican Army

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The End