Devil's Arithmetic Timeline

  • Invaded

    Invaded

    In March, the German occupation of Czechoslovakia began to invade Bohemia and Moravia which led to Slovakia being left as a German puppet state.
  • Resistance Movement

    Resistance Movement

    After the invasions, a Resistance movement began in Poland. Their biggest military army was the Polish Underground State, which eventually became the Home Army.
  • Soviet Minister

    Soviet Minister

    The Soviet-Nazi cooperation advanced when Vyacheslav Molotov became the Soviet Minister of foreign affairs.
  • Agreements

    Agreements

    The Soviet conditions signed an agreement that stated the right of the Red Army troops to pass through Polish territory and limits were set to the British to guarantee to Poland to cover only Poland's western frontier with Germany.
  • War

    War

    Nazi Germany decided to invade Poland using the Gleiwitz incident as an excuse. The Gleiwitz incident was a rumor that Polish troops attacked a post along the German-Polish border.
  • Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler

    Hitler invades Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, and France. He uses blitzkrieg, which was the use of airplanes and ground forces to overwhelm and distress people.
  • Peacetime Draft

    Peacetime Draft

    Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act into law, which later created the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
  • Leon Assassinated

    Leon Assassinated

    Leon Trotsky, a Russian Revolutionist, was assassinated in Mexico by Ramon Mercader. Ramon was a Spanish communist and was believed to be an agent of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
  • Embago

    Embago

    During WWII, the U.S. imposed an embargo on all scrap metal shipments being sent to Japan.
  • Invasion

    Invasion

    In 1941, Nazi Germany invaded Poland as part of their attack on the Soviet Union. Finally, Nazi Germany used all of prewar Poland.
  • German Attack

    German Attack

    After the German attack on the Soviet Union, exterminations were organized to kill Jews. This led to 150,000 Jews being murdered.
  • U.S. WWII

    U.S. WWII

    The United States decided to join World War II after Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941. After all, Germany, Italy, and Japan were defeated at Stalingrad, El Alamein, and Midway during 1942 and 1943.
  • Concentration Camps

    Concentration Camps

    Hannah arrives at a Concentration Camp and gets put under brutal conditions. Her head gets shaved, different clothes, tattoos, freezing showers, and she's starved.
  • Chaya

    Chaya

    When Hannah gets teleported back into The Holocaust period, she turns into a completely different person. Hannah is now Chaya.
  • Save Jews

    Save Jews

    At one point, people made an effort to save Jews. Zofia Kossak-Szczucka made an organization called Provisional Committee to Aid Jews to save Jews and children.
  • Sent back into past

    Sent back into past

    Hannah gets sent back into time randomly during a feast to relive the experience of The Holocaust and see what everyone else had to encounter.
  • Rivka

    Rivka

    Hannah (now Chaya) meets Rivka at the Concentration camp. Rivka teaches her how to be able to survive while at the camp and gives her tips and tricks.
  • Escape

    Escape

    Chaya and Rivka attempt to escape the camp but their plan gets messed up due to someone else trying to escape, but unfortunately getting caught. Once they've returned to their chambers they find out someone was able to escape after all.
  • Chaya saves Rivka's life

    Chaya saves Rivka's life

    Rivka was about to be placed into a gas oven but instead, Chaya decides to take her place and go in herself. As Chaya gets put inside, she gets teleported back into the present time and realizes that the person whom she was saving, was her Aunt Eva.
  • Shmuel's Wedding

    Shmuel's Wedding

    Shmuel and Fayge had a wedding and while on the way to the synagogue, they met the Nazis. The Nazis took everyone from the wedding and continued to take them to concentration camps. However, Chaya was already aware of what was going on.
  • Death

    Death

    When Shmuel makes an attempt to escape from the Concentration Camp, he gets caught and executed. Meanwhile, Yitzchak is able to get away.
  • Shmuel and Fayge

    Shmuel and Fayge

    While Shmuel and Fayge are at the execution, they both get executed after both being excited to see one another.
  • The Warsaw Uprising

    The Warsaw Uprising

    The Warsaw Uprising was a major military endeavor of the Polish resistance movement during the time of World War II.
  • Capture Warsaw

    Capture Warsaw

    The Soviet was able to capture Warsaw in January 1945. Also, The German forces were driven from Poland, and Poland's borders were set by the post-war Potsdam Conference. Finally, Poland lost territory due to the Soviet Union but was able to gain some from Germany.
  • Celebrate Seder

    Celebrate Seder

    Hannah and her family go to her grandparent's house on Passover to celebrate her Jewish Culture.