WW2/Night/Maus Timeline

  • Japan invades

    Japanese troops invade Manchuria
  • Italy invades

    Fascist invades and conquers Ethiopia
  • Nazi Germany and Italy sign treaty

    They sign a treaty of cooperation with eachother
  • Vladek marries Anja

    They get married
  • Japan invades China

    Japan invades china, starting WW2 in the Pacific
  • Textile business is up, Richieu is born

    Vladeks textile business is up and running and his first son is born
  • Anja gets medical help for depression

    She sees a doctor for her postpartum depression
  • Germany goes into Austria

    Germany troops invade Austria
  • France and Britain

    France and Great Britain establish borders of polish state
  • Vladek gets called to duty

    he gets called for duty in the military
  • Germany invade poland

    Germany invades Poland and creates WW2 in Europe
  • War on Germany

    Great Britain and France declare war on Germany
  • Soviet Union Joins

    The Soviet Union Invades Poland from the east
  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan Bombs America bringing in the unstoppable force of the U.S.A into WW2
  • Elie and Moshe the Beadle

    Elie Wiesel meets Moshe the Beadle
  • Moshe the Beadle

    Moshe the Beadle escapes the Gestapo Slaughter
  • Richieu dies

    Their son dies
  • Mandelbaum was killed

    His friend who had been traveling with him was killed.
  • Synagogues get closed

    Nazis take over jewish leaders and close the synagogues in Transylvania
  • Elie's family marches to ghetto

    They are forced to march to the new home of the ghetto
  • Railway Cars

    The family joins the last group of deportees on the railway cattle cars
  • Birkenau

    The convoy reaches Birkenau, Elie spends his first night in camp
  • Vladek taught english

    He began teaching the supervisor english in exchange for food and clothes.
  • Vladek and Anja Hide in sosnoweic

    They are in hiding from the germans
  • Vladek arrives at auschwitz

    He gets to auschwitz
  • Surgery for Elie

    Elie undergoes surgery in Auschwitz infirmary
  • Liberation

    The red army liberates Auschwitz
  • DEATH

    Chlomo Wiesel dies in bunk at Buchenwald
  • FREEEEEEDOOOOOOMMMM!!!!

    Elie is liberated with arrival of U.S Troops
  • Vladek Goes back to sosnowiec

    Vladek goes back to sosnowiec to reunite with Anja