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Vladeck is born
Vladeck is born to his mother and father on October 11, 1906. -
Vladek's father begind the process of protecting Vladek from going into the Army
Vladek's father begins starving Vladek, preventing him from sleeping, and pulling out his teeth, much like he did to Vladek's brother, Marcus, in order to try to keep Vladek weak so he will not be taken during his Army exmaination three months later. At his Army examination, Vladek is told to build himself up over the course of the next year, and then come back to an army examination. -
Vladek enters the Army
Vladek gets his father to allow him to build his strength so he can possibly be taken into the Army during his Army examination. This year, Vladek enters the Polish Army. -
Vladek and Anja meet
In December of 1935, Vladek goes from Czestochowa to visit his family in Sosnowiec. During his visit, Vladek is introduced to his future wife, Anja, who is 6 years his minor. -
Vladek meets Anja's parents
Vladek meets Anja's parents, the Zylbergers, in early 1936. Anja's parents are very anxious about her getting married as she is 24 years old. While at Anja's home, Vladek uncovers pills in Anja's closet which he is later told are for anxiety. For dinner that evening, gefilte fish is served. -
Vladek and Anja get engaged
Just a year after meeting, Vladek and Anja get engaged. -
Vladek stops hearing from Anja
After getting engaged, but before moving to Sosnowiec, Vladek stops hearing from Anja. He calls Anja's house, but Mrs. Zylberberg says Anja does not want to speak to him because she got a letter from Vladek's exlove interest, Lucia, that says Vladek has not only a bad reputation, but myriad girlfriends, and only wants to marry Anja for her money. Vladek goes to Sosnowiek to talk to Anja about this and assure her none of these accusations are true. -
Vladek moves to Sosnowiec
A year after meeting Anja, Vadek moves from Czestochowa to Sosnowiec where Anja lives. He now lives in one of Anja's father's appartments. -
Vladek and Anja get married
Vladek and Anja get married roughly two and a half months after getting engaged. As a wedding gift, Vladek and Anja recieve partial ownership of one of Anja's father's appartments, and a gold watch. -
Vladek uncovers Anja's connection to communist conspirations
Vladek returns home from a selling trip to find police at his appartment building. Vladek uncovers that Anja has been translating communist messages into German. Vladek becomes very angry with Anja and is ready to file for a divorce. Soon after this outbreak, however, Vladek tells Anja that if she wants them to stay married, then she must stop helping the communists, and she stops. -
Vladek's first child, Richieu, is born
Richieu, Vladek's first child, is born and weighs over 3 ounces. -
Vladek brings Anja to a sanitarium
Since giving birth to Richieu, Anja has suffered greatly from depression. Vladek brings Anja to a sanitarium in Czechoslavkia to recuperate. -
Vladek sees the swastika for the first time
While on a train to go with Anja to a snitarium in Cechoslovakia, Vladeck sees the swastika for the first time. -
Anja and Vladek arrive at the sanitarium
Vladek and Anja arrive at the sanitarium where they spend three months. At the sanitarium, Anja and Vladek have a luxurious room with a view, and go either dancing or to the theater in the evenings. On a daily basis, Anja becomes very nervous, and every couple of days, Vladek speaks to a specialist at the sanitarium's clinic. Vladek works hard to make Anja happy, and tells her jokes and stories, and shows her pictures of Richieu to calm her. -
Vladek's factory is robbed
Vladek's factory in Bielsko gets robbed while Vladek is at the snaitarium with Anja. Vladek had left his father-in-law in charge of his factory while he is gone. Practically everything from Vladek's factory has been stolen, and it was not insured. In a few months time, however, with help from his father-in-law Vladek is able to reinstitute his his factory. -
Vladek and Anja return home from the sanitarium
Vladek and Anja return home to Sosnowiek from the sanitarium in Czechoslovakia after spending three months there. -
Vladek gets drafted
Vladek, a member of the Polish Reserves Army recieves, a draft notice. Vladek is told to report to the frontier against Germany immediatly. Anja, Richieu and their governess go to Sosnowiec with Anja's father. After a few days of training, Vladek is out on the frontier against Germany for the start of World War II. -
World War II begins
World War II begins, and Vladek is on the front line of the frontier against Germany. -
Vladek is taken as a prisoner of war
Vladek shoots a German after that German surenders, and, as a result, is taken by the Nazis as a prisoner of war to a location near Nuremberg, Germany. While near Nuremberg, Vladek has to do work such as clean stables. -
Vladek is taken to a bigger prisoner of war camp
Vladek is taken to a bigger prisoner of war camp where it is extreemely cold, and he is very underfed. At this camp, Vladek and other prisoners pray, do gymnastics, play chess, and recieved packages containing items such as chocolate. -
Vladek goes to work for a German company
Vladek volunteers for a German labor assignmnent and goes to a German company where he had a wooden house with a bed, stove, sheets and pillows. While at the company, Vladek and other men work to compleete tasks such as move mountians. -
Vladek gets released as a prisoner of war
Vladek gets released as a prisoner of war and expects to be sent to Sosnowiec His train, however, goes right past Sosnowiek, and he spends time in the Protectorate. To escape the Protectorate, Vladek goes to stay with Orbach, a friend of his uncles, and his family. After staying with Orbach for a couple of days, Vladek goes on a train from the Protectorate to the Reich pretending to be a Pole as he did not have the nessisary legal papers as a Jew. -
Vladek returns home
After returning to his parents house, Vladek returns home to Anja and Richieu in Sosnowiec. -
Vladek goes to the Stara Sosnowiec Quarter
Vladek and his family go to the Stara Sosnowiec Quarter from their homes in Sosnowiek. -
Vladek gets his legal papers stamped
Vladek and his family go to a stadium on Agust 12, 1942, to get their legal documents stamped. At the staduim, Vladek and Anja get their papers stamped, yet Vladek's sister Fela and her four children do not. Even though Vladek's father does get his papers stamped, he goes to the side of the stadium with the people who do not because he says he cannot leave his daughter to care for her four children and self alone. Vladek never sees them again. -
Vladek goes to Srodula
In 1943, there was an order that every Jew that remained in Sosnowiek had to move to Srodula, a village not far away. Vladek's family stays in a cottage in Srodula, and have jobs in places like German factories and shops which they had to walk an hour and a half to get to each day. -
Vladek sends Richieu to stay with Peris
Conditions are getting bad in the ghetto, but everyone knows that in Auschwitz conditions will be far worse. To protect Richieu, Vladek and Anja send him along with Lonia, Anja's sister, Tosha, Tosha's husband, Wolfe, and their child, Bibi to go stay with Wolfe's uncle, Peris as he has connections to the Germans and thus can better bribe them than Vladek can. -
Richieu dies
Tosha, Richieu's aunt, poisons herself and Richieu along with his cousins Bibi, Lonia when they are going to be sent to Auschwitz. -
Vladek stays in a coal cabinet bunker
In mid 1943, the Germans begin to take people who have their legal papers along with those who dont. As a result, Vladek finds a bunker for he and his remaining family to hide in. This bunker is located through a small hole in the floor of a coal cabnet, and although the gestapo's dogs smell Vladek and him family, the gastapo can not find them. -
Vladek attempts to help his family escape
Vladek sees his cousin, Jakov, and asks him if he can help he and his family out of this holding room where they wait to be sent to Auschwitz. In return for some gold and other valubles, Jakov attempts to help Vladek and his remaining family escape. The plan is for Anja and Vladek to carry their family members out in pails, yet Vladek's other cousin, Haskel, takes these family members' money and does not help them. This is the last time we see Anja's parents. -
Vladek gets caught in an attic bunker and reported to the gestapo
Vladek and his remaining family hide in a bunker located in the attic of a house in the ghetto. A stranger finds Vladek and his family up in the attic while out looking for food, and reports Vladek and his family to the gestapo. -
Vladek waits to be sent to Auschwitz
After being caught by the gestapo in an attic bunker, Vladek and his family are sent to a building in the ghetto where they wait to be sent to Auschwitz. -
Vladek stays with Miloch
Vladek and Anja are brought to stay with Haskel's brothers Miloch and Pesach in a shoe factory. -
Anja and Vladek hide in a shoe bunker
Vledek and Anja hide in a bunker made out of a mound of shoes in the shoe factory where Miloch works. -
Vladek and Anja leave Srodula
Vladek and Anja leave Srodula and go to Sosnowiek. In Sosnowiek, they have great difficulty finding a place to hide because they are Jews. They eventuailly find a place to hide. This shelter is at a barn owned by a lady named Mrs. Kawika. They stay here until they flea with to stay with a lady named Mrs. Motonowa in her rat filled basement. -
Vladek tries to flee to Hungary
Vladek and Anja plan to flee to Hungary. They begin to travel to Hungary with some smugglers after hearing such a trip was safe and well worth it. On the trian ride to Hungary, however, Anja and Vladek are caught by the gestapo and sent to Auschwitz. -
Vladek arrives at Auschwitz.
Vladek arives at Auschwitz. Here, he and Anja keep in close contact through a Hungarian lady named Mancie who brings them messages. Upon arrival, Vledek looses his clothes and his hair, and is very nervous. -
Vladek chosen to teach English
Vladek is chosen by his block supervvisor to teach him English. In return, Vladek recieves extra food and new clothes that fit, and is protected from being killed. -
Vladek begins to go to Birkenau
Vladek begins to go to Birkenau, a part of Auschwitz, each couple of days to fix some roofs that have collapsed. This allows Vladek to see Anja briefly. -
Vladek becomes a tinsmith
Vladek becomes a tinsmith. His boss Yidel and he do not get along well, yet eventually, Vladek begins to bring him gifts. -
Vladek becomes a shoe maker
Vladek becomes a shoe maker in Auschwitz and is greatly rewarded with food by a supervising gestapo for his craftsmanship. -
Vladek begins black work
After the shoe workshop closed that he worked in, Vladek began to do black work which consisted of manual labor such as lifting boulders. -
Vladek becomes a tinssmith again
After doing black work, Vladek becomes a tinssmith again for about a month or two. -
Vladek goes to Breslau
Vladek leaves Auschwitz and goes to a smaller camp called Gross-Rosen in Breslau. -
Vladek arrives in Dachau
Vladek goes by train to Dachau. In Dachau, Vladek really struggles because if one has lice in Dachau, then they do not get any soup, and, due to the enclosed area and straw which Vladek satys on, it is vertually impossible for Vladek not to have lice. -
Vladek gets typhus
After spending a few weeks in Dachau, Vladek becomes sick with typhus. On top of that, one of Vladek's hands is infected. -
Vladek to be free at Swiss border
Vladek is told that he, among others, is going to be given up as a war prisoner in Switzerland. -
World War II ends
World war II ends on may 7, 1945, a little less than six years after it started. -
Vladek back under German control
Vladek and other Holocaust victims find themselves back under the control by the Germans again even though the war is over and they are told the Aericans are coming to save them. This same sinerio happens two days in a row. -
Vladek is officially free
The Wehrmacht retreat and Vladek is officially free from the Germans. -
Vladek goes to Garmisch-Partekirchen
Vladek goes to Garmisch-Partekirchen, a displaced person's camp. While there, Vladek has a relapse of typhus. -
Vladek and Anja are reunited
In the summer of 1945, Vladek and Anja are reunited in Sosnowiek. -
Vladek's wife, Anja, dies
On May 21, 1968, Vladek's wife, Anja, commits suicide. Anja has suffered from depression for over 33 years and took an anxiety medication. -
Vladek marries Mala
Vladek marries his second wife, Mala. The two have a very rocky marraige as things such as money create a great deal of tension between the two of them. -
Mala leaves Vladek
Vladek is left by his second wife, Mala. Mala takes his money and leaves after a very troubled marriage. -
Mala come back to Vladek
Mala, Vladek's second wife, comes back to him after they spent about a year apart. Mala says she came back to Vladek because she feels bad for him. -
Vladek goes to LaGuardia Hospital
Vladek flies New York from his second home in Florida to go to LaGuardia Hospital. Vladek has been suffering from water in his lungs. This is the third time in a month that Vladek has such a complication. -
Vladek dies
Late summer in 1982, Vladek dies at age 76, 14 years after his wife, Anja.
