Elie Wiesel Timeline
From his book, Night
| Approximate Date | Event |
|---|---|
| At home (pgs.1-8) | |
| April 8-15, 1944 (Week of Passover) | Ghettos set up in Sighet (pg.8) |
| Sunday, May 29, 1944 (Pentecost)< | Left Sighet to the gate of the ghetto (pg.10) |
| Tuesday, May 31, 1944 | Left to the unguarded little ghetto (pg.17) |
| Saturday, June 4, 1944 | Left little ghetto to the main synagogue (pg. 19) |
| Sunday, June 5, 1944 | Went to station and departed--80 people per car (pgs.19-20) |
| Tuesday, June 7, 1944 | Stopped at Kaschau, a little town on the Czechoslovak frontier (pg.21) |
| Wednesday, June 8, 1944 | Reached Auschwitz; that night they saw one of the furnaces (pg.25) |
| Midnight, Wednesday, June 8, 1944 | Arrived at Birkenau, reception center for Auschwitz (pg.26) |
| Thursday, June 9, 1944 | (Very early) Elie & his father parted from Elie's mother and sister (pg.28) |
| Early Evening, Thursday, June 9, 1944 | Went to new barracks in the "Gypsies" camp (pg.35) |
| Wednesday, June 15, 1944 | Elie was given the designation A-7713 (pg.39) |
| Around June 29, 1944 (After 3 weeks in Auschwitz) | Given a new head of the block; old one considered too humane (pg.41) |
| Thursday, June 30, 1944 | Left Auschwitz and arrived at Buna four hours later (pg.43) |
| Monday, July 4, 1944 (After 3 days in quarantine) | Started medical examinations, started to work in electrical warehouse (pg.47) |
| One day, soon after July 4, 1944 | Called to dentist to get gold crown removed; faked being ill (pg.49) |
| One Week later | Went back to dentist and again faked being ill (pgs.49-50) |
| Sunday, a few weeks later | Was whipped 25 times by Idek for seeing him with a girl (pg.55) |
| A few Sundays later | Air raid-sirens wailed; Buna was bombed (pgs.57-58) |
| One week later | First hanging Elie witnessed (pg.48) |
| Rosh Hashanah | New Year's service (pgs.64-65) |
| Yom Kippur | Another selection took place (pgs.65-67) |
| Several days later | Father didn't pass selection; gave Elie a spoon and knife as the "inheritance" (pg.71) |
| Later that day | Father passed second selection; Elie returned spoon and knife (pg.72) |
| Christmas 1944 and New Year's Day 1945 | No work; allowed slightly thicker soup (pg.74) |
| Toward middle of January | Elie's foot starts to hurt; Elie gets operation, the swelling was just opened (pg.76) |
| Three days after operation | Camp gathered to be evacuated (pgs.77-78) |
| One day later | Camp evacuated (pg.80) |
| One day later | Went into shed for warmth and protection; each urged the other to go to sleep (pgs.84-85) |
| Two days later | Reached Gleiwitz (pg.88) |
| Three days after arrival at Gleiwitz | Another selection; confusion during selection allowed Elie and his father to escape (pg.91) |
| A few hours later | Waited for train to come (pg.92) |
| During the train ride | Hundreds of corpses disposed of (pgs.94-95) |
| That evening | Arrived at Buchenwald (pg.98) |
| The next day | Elie's father is struck down with dysentery (pg.102) |
| A few hours later | Elie's father is beaten by two people (pg.104) |
| Monday, January 29, 1945 | Elie finds another invalid in his father's place; assumes his father is dead (pg.106) |
| Thursday, April 5, 1945 | All Jews ordered to go to the block to be shot; evacuation began (pgs.107-108) |
| Tuesday, April 10, 1945 | Battle started; SS fled and resistance had taken charge of the camp (pg.109) |
| Friday, April 13, 1945 | Elie becomes ill with food poisoning, spends two weeks between life and death (pg.109) |
| A few days later | Elie looks in the mirror; a corpse looked back |