Elie Wiesel timeline by Melanie Sofia Sanchez Parra https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg en-us 2023-01-26 02:22:30 UTC 2023-01-26 02:28:36 UTC hello@padlet.com 1928 melanie_sanchez4 https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457016714 The Kellogg-Briand Pact renounced war as an instrument of national policy.
On September 30, Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania, then and now part of Romania.



]]> 2023-01-26 02:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457016714 1933 melanie_sanchez4 https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457016928 Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany and the Nazi Party takes control of Germany's government. The first permanent concentration camp, Dachau, is established.



]]> 2023-01-26 02:24:42 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457016928 1935 melanie_sanchez4 https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457017829 The Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews are decreed, depriving Jews of German citizenship.



]]> 2023-01-26 02:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457017829 1940 melanie_sanchez4 https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457018412 Elie Wiesel and his family became residents of Hungary.



]]> 2023-01-26 02:26:37 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457018412 1941 melanie_sanchez4 https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457018729 Construction of the Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz II) camp begins in the fall. The United States entered World War II on December 8, The first of the killing centers in Nazi-occupied Poland began operation on December 8.
Twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel begins studying Kabbalah.



]]> 2023-01-26 02:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457018729 1944 melanie_sanchez4 https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457019107 Elie Wiesel is fifteen years old when he and his family are deported in May 1944 by the Hungarian gendarmerie and the German SS and police from Sighet to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister perish; his two older sisters survive.



]]> 2023-01-26 02:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457019107 1945 melanie_sanchez4 https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457019320 SS units evacuate Auschwitz in January. Elie and his father are transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar Germany. Elie's father dies in January; Elie is liberated with the arrival of US troops in April.



]]> 2023-01-26 02:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457019320 1948 melanie_sanchez4 https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457019453 Elie Wiesel studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. He becomes interested in journalism.



]]> 2023-01-26 02:28:04 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457019453 1949 melanie_sanchez4 https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457019652 Elie Wiesel goes to Jerusalem for the first time.



]]> 2023-01-26 02:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457019652 1951 melanie_sanchez4 https://padlet.com/melanie_sanchez4/bxjwsh8etkof9prg/wish/2457019843 The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide enters into force.



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