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Elie and Vladek Timeline

  • WWII

    WWII

    Hitler officially becomes "leader" of Germany after former president dies.
  • Vladek

    Vladek

    Vladek and Anja are introduced for the first time.
  • Vladek

    Vladek

    Vladek and Anja marry.
  • Vladek

    Vladek

    Richaeu is born.
  • Vladek

    Vladek

    Vladek is drafted to support the war within a moment's notice.
  • WWII

    WWII

    WWII begins.
  • WWII

    WWII

    Germans invade Sosnowiec
  • Vladek

    Vladek

    Vladek is taken as a POW after participating in the war.
  • Vladek

    Vladek has a vivid dream of escaping the labor camps on Parshas Trauma.
  • Vladek

    Vladek

    After being liberated as a POW, Vladek manages to sneak his way back to his family/ Anja.
  • WWII

    WWII

    Auschwitz opens; the largest of concentration camps.
  • Vladek

    Vladek

    Anja's grandparents are taken away, where they are to killed in Auschwitz.
  • Vladek

    Vladek

    Vladek's father doesn't make it past inspection because of his age.
  • Vladek

    Vladek

    Richaeu, Valdek's firstborn, dies through an assisted suicide of poison by part of his aunt.
  • Elie

    Elie

    Elie and his family are deported from the town of Sighet to a labor camp.
  • Elie

    Elie

    Ms. Schachter is hallucinating and becoming hectic over a non-existent fire.
  • Elie

    Elie

    Aushwitz is liberated.
  • Elie

    Elie

    Elie's father dies of dysentery at the concentration camp
  • Elie

    Elie

    Elie is finally liberated.
  • WWII

    WWII

    Germany/ Nazi's finally reveal their surrender to the Western Allies.
  • Elie

    Elie

    Elie is encouraged to write about his traumatic life experiences inside the death camp walls.
  • Elie

    Elie

    Elie publishes Night, English version.
  • Elie

    Elie

    Elie gives acceptance speech after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Elie

    Elie

    Elie recieves honorary knighthood for raising awareness/ education of the Holocaust in the UK
  • Elie

    Elie

    Elie is dragged into a hotel while in New York by a Holocaust denier