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- Elie wiesel was born in 1928 in the town of Sighet, now part of Romania.
- In 1941, While in the ghetto in Sighet, Wiesel began to study the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah.
- In May 1944, the ghettos of Sighet were liquidated and all of the Jews in the ghettos were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- Elie Wiesel, his father, and his two older sisters survived the initial selection process and became part of the working population of the camp. His mother and younger sister were killed upon arrival.
- American forces reached Buchenwald in April 1945, liberating the camp and beginning to provide aid to the prisoners remaining alive in the camp.
- In 1949 Working as a journalist, Wiesel visited Jerusalem for the first time. The Israeli state was still quite young.
- In 1986, Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for his ongoing work speaking out against racism, violence and genocide. He has remained politically active, speaking at the opening of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and visiting Auschwitz with Oprah Winfrey in 2006
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