Tymirra+Rollins

Was born in 1928 in the town of Sighet, now part of Romania. During World War II, he, with his family and other Jews from the area, were deported to the German concentration and extermination camps, where his parents and little sister perished. Wiesel and his two older sisters survived. Liberated from Buchenwald in 1945 by advancing Allied troops, he was taken to Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne and worked as a journalist. Eliezer Wiesel led a life representative of many Jewish children. Growing up in a small village in Romania, his world revolved around family, religious study, community and God. Yet his family, community and his innocent faith were destroyed upon the deportation of his village in 1944. Arguably the most powerful and renowned passage in Holocaust literature, his first book, //Night//, records the inclusive experience of the jews.
 * Eliezer Wiesel**
 * TIMELINE**

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1928--born in Sighet, Romania 1944--deported to Auschwitz Jan.1945--father dies in Buchenwald Apr.1945--liberated from concentration camp 1948--moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne 1948--work in journalism begins 1954--decides to write about the Holocaust 1956--hit by a car in New York 1958--//Night// is published 1963--receives U.S. citizenship 1964--returned to Sighet 1965--first trip to Russia 1966--publishes //Jews of Silence// 1969--married Marion Rose 1972--son is born 1978--appointed chair of Presidential Commission on the Holocaust 1980--Commission renamed U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council 1985--awarded Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement 1986--awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1995--publishes memoirs=====

She was born in a little city in Poland named Oleszyce. Her community consisted of 7,000 families, half of them were Jews. Her father, Israel Vogel, was the head of the Jewish community, the head of the **Kehillah** In eva's part of Poland there was a famous Rabbi, the Belzer **Rebbe**. When she was born there was a big fire in the Rebbe's house. He had many invitations to stay with people while his house in Belz was being rebuilt. His personal secretary, his Gabbai, went to look at all these places and chose hers. Galler's house was big enough to accommodate the Rebbe's household. This was a great honor. He lived with them for three years. At this time Eva was an infant in the cradle. Her mother had lost four children. They were supposed to go live in a house they owned next door. Eva mother refused to move her out of their main house until the Belzer Rabbi blessed her. It was said that he gave her a special **blessi ng**. The whole city knew about this. Eva father had a business of distributing religious articles. The occupation of a majority of the older Jews in their community was to make these articles, like **Torahs** and **tefillin**. I was interested in how they were made. They would stretch animal skins on a frame to make the parchment. The parchment would be cut into sheets. Sofers or scribes would then write the letters on the parchment. It took a scribe an entire year to write a Torah. They sewed the parchment sheets together into the scrolls with threads made of animal sinews. My father could recognize the handwriting of all of his scribes. Every week they brought their work to my father to get paid. He would then distribute the religious articles to buyers in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania and later, after my brother emigrated, to the United States
 * Eva Galler **