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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany.
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Vladek and Anja marry shortly after Vladek ends his relationship with Lucia Greenberg.
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Anja's father (Vladek's father-in-law) fully finances Vladek's textile company.
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In early 1938, shortly after giving birth develops post partum depression. Which Vladek goes with her to a sanitarium in Czechoslovakia.
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Vladek is taken while on the trenches, and is sent to a POW camp then later required to work in a German factory.
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Kristallnacht-Hundreds of Jews owned shops, homes and synagogues
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In August Vladek gets a letter from the Polish Government and is drafter to become a soldier for Poland.
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Elie's family and his neighbors are forced to wear the Star of David on their arms
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
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Elie and his family are forced to move to Hungary by Nazi soldiers.
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Elie begins studying Kabbalah with Moishe the Beadle to further gain a deeper understanding of God.
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Just days after Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Germany declares war on the U.S.
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Vladek and his family are forced into living in the ghetto.
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Elie gets deported from Hungary to Auschwitz by Nazi and Hungary soldiers. There his mother and younger sister later die.
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After being deported into Auschwitz, Vladek is forced to work in a tin shop.
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Germany begins it's mass deportation of Jews of nearly 440,000 Jews to Hungary.
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Vladek is betrayed by smugglers and are turned in to the Nazi's and are later taken to Auschwitz.
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After working in the tin shop, Vladek volunteers to work at the Auschwitz shoe shop in hopes of seeing his wife Anja.
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Elie Wiesel and His father along with thousands of other Jews are forced to walk nearly 50 miles in freezing temperatures and little food and water.
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Elie's falls asleep on the night of January 28th, wakes up the next morning and his father is gone.
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Elie is liberated on April in 1945 by the U.S. troops.
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Both Anja and Vladek survive the Holocaust and are liberated in Dachau.
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After many years of battling depression and experiencing the Holocaust Anja kills herself.
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Elie Wiesel got married to his wife Marion.
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Vladek Dies after suffering from a heart attack.
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Elie Wiesel wins the Nobel Peace Prize for being one of the most inportant influential spiritual leaders.
