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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany and the Nazi party takes control of Germany's government.
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Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews are created, making Jews of German citizenship.
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Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler is appointed chief of the German Police.
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Vladek courts Anja. By 1936, they are engaged, and they marry on February 14, 1937.
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•By October 1937, Vladek’s textile factory, financed by his in-laws, is up and running, and Richieu is born
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By early 1938, Anja gets a severe case of postpartum depression, and Vladek accompanies her to a sanitarium in Czechoslovakia to recover.
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In April, Britain and France guarantee the integrity of Poland's borders after Hitler violates Munich Agreement of 1938 by invading and dismembering Czechoslovakia. World War 2 begins.
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On the train, Vladek and Anja see the Nazi Flag
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Kristallnacht a government-organized pogrom against Jews in Germany, Austria, where there is destruction of synagogues, businesses, and homes and the loss of at least 91 lives in November.
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In August, 1939, Vladek is called into active duty in the Polish army.
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In September, 1939, Vladek is fighting in the trenches against the Germans. He is taken prisoner during the commotion
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Jewish property is taken away, Vladek loses his factory
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Aushwitz opens near the Poland border.
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Vladek is released from being a prisoner of war and is reunited with his family.
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Moishe the Beadle agrees to teach Elie Kabbalah.
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All foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet. And Moishe the Beadle was a foreigner.
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Moishe the beadle escaped death and made it back to Elie and the town. He told everyone of his story, no one believed him
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It is now the year 1943. The Jews have been moved to Srodula, and they are forced to work in the shops and factories of Sosnowiec
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Jews in the Warsaw ghetto rise up against their oppressors.
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Vladek sends Richieu to live with relatives in Zawiercie. But when the Nazis come to Zawiercie to take the Jews to the camps, Richieu is poisoned by his aunt in order to avoid being killed at the camps.
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Elie and his family move from their home to a smaller ghetto, they move into the house of another family.
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Vladek and Anja have gone into hiding in Sosnowiec, first staying with a Polish woman, Mrs. Kowka, then on the farm of Mrs. Motonowa.
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Elie adn his family are deported from the ghetto to Aushwitz, where him and his father are separated from the rest of his family.
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Elie's foot is in bad condition and is very sewlled. Elie must have it operated on in the Aushwitz infirmary.
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Elie and his father are transported from Aushwitz to Buchenwald.
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Elie's father had aged so much since the beginning of their journey, he lost his strength and will to live, leaving Elie by himself.
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US troops arrive and liberate the Jews that are still alive.
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Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz on January 27. US troops liberate Buchenwald on April 11. Germany surrenders on May 7; World War II in Europe ends on May 8
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Elie Wiesel studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. He becomes interested in journalism.
