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

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

4. community in the small town of Sighet in Hungarian
He lives in a Jewish
community in the small town of Sighet in Hungarian
Transylvania.
Small town
Sighet, Hungary

5. Eliezer likes to learn things so he studies a lot.
Eliezer Wiesel
Likes to learn

6. the first of five(5) books
He studies the TORAH
the first of five(5) books
of the Old Testament.
Eliezer studies
The Torah

7. He also studies the CABBALA A doctrine of Jewish Mysticism.
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He studies
The Cabbala

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

9. One day Moshe got expelled from the town.
Moshe the Beadle
Got kicked out of town

10. A few months later, Moshe returned to the town.
Moshe the Beadle
Came back to town

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

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

13. He tried to warn everyone that danger was on its way.
He warned people
About danger

14. Nobody believed that Moshe was telling the truth.
Nobody
Believed him

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

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

17. Eliezer’s family was forced into Ghettos.
Eliezer’s family
In Ghettos

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

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

20. They finally arrived at Birkenau, the gateway to Auschwitz.
They arrived
Birkenau camp

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

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

23. They are marched from Birkenau to the main camp, Auschwitz.
Many people
Marched to Auschwitz

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

25. They are taken to Buna, a work camp.
Eliezer and father
Buna, work camp

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

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

28. One of the mean soldiers makes Eliezer give him his gold tooth.
Eliezer gives
His GOLD tooth

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

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

31. After months in a camp, Eliezer has his foot operated on.
Eliezer’s foot
Operated on

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

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

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

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

36. 100 One hundred Jews boarded the cars but only 12 lived. One hundred
One hundred
100
Jewish people

37. The train went to the concentration camp in Buchenwald.
Cattle car train
Buchenwald

38. Eliezer’s father dies when they get to Buchenwald.
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Eliezer father
died

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

40. The
End