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Nazis invade Krakow, Poland
As the family is listening to news of the nazi army's location, the radio annouces that the Nazis have reached Krakow, Poland. -
Yanek and his family hide in a big pigeon coop
Yanek and his family move into a pigeon coop on top of their building's roof to hide from the Nazis -
Yanek has to sneak around to have his bar mitzvah
Jews aren't allowed to be out of their homes past sunset, and so him and his dad have to sneak around to get to an abandoned factory to have his bar mitzvah. -
Auschwitz Concentration Camp Is Established
Aushwitz, a concentration camp was just established for jews and other people with flaws according to Adolph Hitler, to start coming to the camp to work. -
Japan Launches a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan bombs pearl harbor, hawaii and kills thousands of people -
Plazow Concentration Camp
Yanek is moved to Plazow Concentration Camo where he finds his Uncle Moshe. -
Yanek's family is taken away
One Day, Yanek came home and his parents were gone. They had been taken to the concentration camps where they were worked to death. -
Yanek and his friends hide under the floor
Yanek and his friends couldn't work anymore, because they were too weak, so they hid under the floor boards and came out when it was time to eat, or roll call was starting. -
Doolittle Raid on Japan
A team of Ameicans Led By Doolittle invaded Japan for its attack on pearl harbor -
Anne Frank and her family go into hiding
Anne Frank and her family are jews, and the Nazis are coming and trying to collect all the jews and bring them to death and/or concentration camps, so they hide in a secret room behind a bookshelf in an annex. -
Uncle Moshe Is Missing
Yanek comes back to the concentration camp after his long day of work and Uncle Moshe is not there. One of the other prisoners told him that he was killed. -
Yanek is Relocated to the Wieliczka Salt mine
Yanek is moved to Wieliczka Salt mine where he sleeps, eats, and mines all day. If he is not mining, he is pushing gigantic boulders up a big, steep hill. Yanek often talks about how the past prisoners or other miners carved statues out of salt. -
Death March
Yanek is going to be transsferred to a different concentration camp, and instead of taking them by train, the nazis make them walk for 3 days without food or water, and they would only stop a few times. If you got too far behind the group, you get shot immediately. -
Yanek and his fellow prisoners are rescued
Yanek wakes up to find there is no Nazis, but all the sudden green-uniformed soldiers came. It was the Americans Rescuing them -
Adolf Hitler Commits suicide
The Americans were coming to save the jews and capture hitler, and hitler knew that he would be in A LOT of trouble, so he committed suicide.