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Eliezer Wiesel is a 14 year
old Jewish boy in 1944.
Eliezer Wiesel
Jewish boy
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He lives with his three(3)
sisters and parents.
3 sisters
parents
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He lives in a Jewish
community in the small town
of Sighet in Hungarian
Transylvania.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/poienile/narrow_street_Poieni.jpg
Small town
Sighet, Hungary
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Eliezer likes to learn things
so he studies a lot.
www.lomist.com/
Eliezer Wiesel
Likes to learn
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He studies the TORAH
the first of five(5) books
of the Old Testament.
http://geohistech.free.fr/Hebreux/Matos/Torah%203.jpg
Eliezer studies
The Torah
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He also studies the CABBALA
A doctrine of Jewish Mysticism.
noreah.typepad.com/.../06/music_and_magic.html
He studies
The Cabbala
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His teacher is an old, poor,
wise man from the village
named Moshe the Beadle.
http://www.hulubei.net/tudor/photography/O/l/Old-Man-1/Old-Man-1-25.html
His old, wise teacher
Moshe the Beadle
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One day Moshe got
expelled from the town.
http://isurvived.org/Pictures_iSurvived-3/Poland-Holocaust_BIG.GIF
Moshe the Beadle
Got kicked out of town
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A few months later, Moshe
returned to the town.
Moshe the Beadle
Came back to town
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He told everyone about the
bad things that happened to
him.
pratyeka.org/prokudin-gorskii/
He told everyone
Bad things happened
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He told them that he was
shot in the leg and he
escaped.
www.benbailey.com.au/blog/2004/07/
Shot in the Leg
He escaped
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He tried to warn everyone
that danger was on its way.
http://www.agavemedia.no/bilder/artwork/Live/1/Old-man-c-up-1.jpg
He warned people
About danger
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Nobody believed that
Moshe was telling the
truth.
http://www.sidneycarter.net/images/Tell_The_Truth.jpg
Nobody
Believed him
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Soon after that, the
German troops came into
Hungary and took over.
http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/photos/p30/p3/p30348.gif
German
troops
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All of the Jewish people
in Sighet were forced into
ghettos.
http://www.israel-flowers-center.com/articles/images%5Chistory_of_the_holocaust_3.jpg
Jewish people
In Ghettos
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Eliezer’s family was
forced into Ghettos.
http://www.remember.org/image/378.gif
Eliezer’s family
In Ghettos
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Then, Eliezer’s family and
everyone else were herded
onto cattle cars on a train.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/index.html
Eliezer’s family
onto cattle cars
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The were on the cramped
cars for days without
much food.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/index.html
Spent days
without food
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They finally arrived at
Birkenau, the gateway
to Auschwitz.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/images/Holocaust/a02j.jpg
They arrived
Birkenau camp
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Eliezer and his father
were separated from his
mother and his sisters
and never saw them
again.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hungarrival.html
Eliezer and father
Never saw mother or
sisters again
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Eliezer and his father
are stripped, shaved,
disinfected, and treated
very meanly.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/index.html
shaved
Treated meanly
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They are marched
from Birkenau to the
main camp, Auschwitz.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/index.html
Many people
Marched to Auschwitz
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Since they are both
healthy, the are put
to work by the Nazi’s.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/index.html
healthy
Put to work
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They are taken to
Buna, a work camp.
www.wsherc.org/.../Buna-Monowitz%20Factory2.html
Eliezer and father
Buna, work camp
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Eliezer is put to work
in an electricalfittings factory.
www.scrapbookpages.com/.../Birkenau01.html
Eliezer works
Electrical factory
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All of the Jews in the
camps are treated like
slaves and beaten.
www.ghwk.de/2006-neu/room14.htm
Treated like slaves
beaten
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One of the mean soldiers
makes Eliezer give him
his gold tooth.
www.nightmarefactory.com/fangs.html
Eliezer gives
His GOLD tooth
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The prisoners are forced
to watch their friends
and family being hurt by
the Nazi’s.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/.../buchpic1.html
The prisoners
Watch friends
getting hurt
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Some of the prisoners
become worried about their
own survival and do mean
things to people in they
love.
www.licopac.org/.../national_issues/index.html
Worried
Mean
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After months in a
camp, Eliezer has his
foot operated on.
www.camnet.com.kh/.../telemedicine_april.htm
Eliezer’s foot
Operated on
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The Nazi’s evacuated
camp because the
Russians were coming.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/art/print?id=58229&articleTypeId=1
Nazi’s evacuate
Russians are coming
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In the middle of a
snowstorm, the prisoners
began a death march.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/index.html
Snowstorm
Prisoners march
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After running more than 50
miles to a camp, many of the
prisoners died from the harsh
weather and exhaustion.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/index.html
Prisoners die
Bad weather
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At Gleiwitz, they
were herded into
cattle cars once again.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/index.html
Prisoners
Onto cattle cars
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One hundred Jews
boarded the cars but
only 12 lived.
http://img.search.com/thumb/e/e9/Buchenwald.jpg/300px-Buchenwald.jpg
One hundred
Jewish people
100
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The train went to the
concentration camp in
Buchenwald.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/index.html
Cattle car train
Buchenwald
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Eliezer’s father dies
when they get to
Buchenwald.
bradydillsworth.com/blog/?m=200602
Eliezer father
died
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The American Army
finally liberated the
camp on April 11, 1945.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/.../buchpic1.html
American Army
Liberated camp
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The
End
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