Elie Wiesel, Spiegelman, WWll

By katiebaxa

  • Vladek was born

    Vladek born on October 11th, 1906

  • Elie Wiiesel is born

    Elie is born in Traansylvania, Romania.
  • Period: to

    Elies lifestyle

    Eliezer Wiesel led a life representative of many Jewish children. Growing up in a small village in Romania, his world revolved around family, religious study, community and God.Yet his family, community and his innocent faith were destroyed upon the deportation of his village in 1944.

  • Japan starts WWll

    Japan invades Manchuria.

  • Hitler was elected

    Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany. Dachau, a death camp, opens.

  • Vladek and Anja meet

    The two are introduced in Sosnowiec, Poland.

  • German Perssure

    Under German pressure, the Slovaks declare their independence and form a Slovak Republic. The Germans occupy the rump Czech lands in violation of the Munich agreement, forming a Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

  • Polish

    France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state.

  • Nonaggression

    Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement and a secret codicil dividing eastern Europe into spheres of influence.

  • War on Germany

    Honoring their guarantee of Poland’s borders, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.

  • Invaded Denmark and Norway

    Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9.

  • Germany has a small break

    The air war known as the Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany.

  • War on the US

    Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States.

  • Elie meets Moishe the Beadle

    Elie is taught by Moishe the Beadle in the mysteries of Kabbalah

  • Parents killed

    Vladek and Anja escape death through bribing a Jewish official, Haskel. Anja's parents are not able to escape and are sent to a death camp.

  • Elie and his family where moved into a ghetto

    Soon after, the Jews were forced to move into the Ghettos

  • Elie was sent into a cattle car

    The Jews then are all called and are sent on cattle cars by train to their first destination.

  • The death of Elies father

    Elie's father, Shlomo, ends up dying in the concentration camp leaving Elie to himself.

  • Reunited with his sisters

    Wiesel spent a few years in a French orphanage where he was reunited with his older sisters, Hilda and Bea.

  • Liberated

    The concentration camp, Dachau, is liberated by American forces. Soon after, Vladek and his friend, Shivek, meet the Americans.

  • Hitlers death

    Hitler commits suicide.

  • Vladek in camp

    In the summer of 1945, Vladek reaches an American run displaced persons camp.

  • Surrendered

    Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.

  • Elie is forced out

    Liberated from the concentration camp.

  • After the Holocaust

    After studying at the Sorbonne, Elie Wiesel begins travelling around the world as a reporter for the Tel Aviv newspaper Yediot Ahronot.
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    Time spent picking up the pieces of his life.

    Writing books, giving speechs, recovering, marrige, travel and much more.

  • Anja commits suicide

    Anja, Vladek's wife, commits suicide. Both Art and Vladek are devastated.

  • Death of a heart attack

    Vladek Spiegelman dies at age 75 of a heart attack.

  • Nobel Peace prize

    Elie Wiesel was awarded the 1986 Nobel peace prize for being one of the most important spiritual leaders.

  • Starting of Maus

    Spiegelman started to write Maus in 1989