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Vladek meets Anja and they were engaged within a year.
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Within two years Vladek and Anja get married.
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Anja and Vladek have their first son Richieu.
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They leave Sosnoweic, Poland to go to Czechoslovakia for three months.
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Vladek is drafted to serve in Polish army and not even 5 months later, he is put on the front lines.
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Germany invades Poland, starting WW2
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Vladek is taken after being in Polish trenches.
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Vladek finally gets released and is able to see Richieu as a two year old.
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All Jews had to register for new documents. Here is where they were split up and sent to camps.
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The Jews have been moved to Srodula, a ghetto for polish jews, where they are forced to work in the shops and factories of Sosnowiec.
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When Anja's sister, Tosha learns that Jews are being sent to gas chambers, she poisons herself and three kids including Richieu.
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In exchange for protection and food, Vladek taught English to an official
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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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Vladek and Anja are separated in the concentration camp.
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After hiding out in a barn, Vladek and his friend are found by Americans and begin working for them.
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Evacuated from Auschwitz and forced to march to Gross-Rosen, another concentration camp.
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This marks the end of World War 2
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Vladek reunites with Anja in Sosnoweik
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Art Spiegelman is born in 1948 in Sweden.
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Anja killed herself because of depression and left no note.
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Vladek dies of congestive heart failure.
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Their daughter was expected in May.