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Vladek and Anja married
Vladek and Anja are married on this day -
Richieu
Richie is born (Anja and Vladek's 1st son) -
Sanitarium
Anja goes to a mental santarium to help with her depression and Vladek goes with to keep her calm. -
Return home
Anja and Vladek return from the sanitarium. -
Polish Army
Vladek is drafted into the Polish army -
Volunteers
Vladeck volunteers to work on labor camp jobs rather than attend a POW camp. -
Anja's Parents
Anja's parents are sent to a gas hamber in Auschwitz -
Public Transportation
German-Jews are no longer allowed to ride on public transportation -
Warsaw ghetto
Beginning of deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to the new extermination camp, Treblinka. -
Moishe the Beadle escapes
This is when Moishe the Beadle escapes the gestapo -
Warsaw Resistance
First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. -
Wiesel family arrives at Birkenall, Poland
Wiesel family arrives at Birkenall, Poland -
New chamber
Newly built gas chamber/crematory III opens at Auschwitz.
With its completion, the four new crematories at Auschwitz have a daily capacity of 4,756 bodies. -
Birkenau
The convoy with Elie Weisel and his father arrives at Birkenau and are seperated from their family -
Final Solution Speech
Himmler talks openly about the Final Solution at Posen -
106 castration
The chief surgeon at Auschwitz reports that 106 castration operations have been performed. -
Polish Border
Russian troops reach former Polish border. -
Auschwitz
Vladek and Anja are sent to Auschwitz -
The little ghetto march
Elie Wiesel and his family march out of the little ghetto -
Moved into ghetto
The Wiesel family is expelled from their home in Sighet and forced to move into the ghetto. -
Railway cars
The Wiesels join the last group of deportees aboard a railway cattle car. -
Elie and his father were sent to Auschwitz.
Elie and his father were sent to Auschwitz -
1st Liberation
Russian troops liberate the first concentration camp, at Majdanek. -
Anne Frank
Anne Frank and her family are sent to Auschwitz -
Happiest Moment
Vladek sees Anja in passing at Auschwitz and just to know she is alive adds to his will to survive.
He states this is his happiest moment at this camp -
Closed Chamber
Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz. -
Evacuations
Elie Weisel and Shlomo are evacuated from their camp on a death march -
Elie Wiesel's dad dies
Elie Wiesl's dad dies of a sickness on that night -
Liberation
Elie is liberated from the concentration camp he was kept in -
Home
Vladeck goes back to his home to see Anja after thinking he would never see her again.
(Picture foreshadows him surviving)
