Maus And Night // Crystal M. & Meghan J.

By Meghan & Crystal

  • Vladek Spiegelman is Drafted to War (Maus)

    No specific day/month
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    Maus And Night

  • The War Has Started (Maus)

    Vladek mentions he is out on the front

  • WWII Began (WWII)

  • Germany Invades Poland (WWII)

  • Great Britain and France Declare War (WWII)

  • Vladek is Freed (Maus)

    • no specific day; on Parshus Truma
    • Those who worked for the Germans in the hills signed and release form and were taken on a train to the places they wished to go

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt is Elected President (WWII)

  • Germans launch attacks in Balkans. Yugoslavia surrenders

    • no specific day/month

  • Germany Invades Greece and Yugoslavia (WWII)

  • Elie Wiesel meets Moishe the Beadle (Night)

    No specific date other than the year

  • Jews are Made to Move (Maus)

    By this time, all Jews were to be relocated into the "Stara Sosnoweic quarter"

  • Japanese Troops Capture Singapore (WWII)

  • All Jews of 70 Years or Older Were to be Transfered to Czechoslovakia (Maus)

    Anja's parents became very worried at the news and attempts to hide them

  • All Jews Had to Have Documents Inspected and Stamped (Maus)

    Vladek and other family members are separated by this process

  • Elie witnessed the man he looked up to lose all hope (Night)

    Moishe the Beadle gives up

  • All Jews Must Go To Srodula (Maus)

    • no specific day/month
    • What was left of the family had to leave Sosnoweic

  • Uncle Persis Tries to Help Vladek and Others (Maus)

    • no specific day/month
    • Uncle Persis ends up taking Tosha, Lonia, Bibi, and Richieu

  • Vladek leaves Sordac (Maus)

    • no specific day/month\
    • Vladek and Anja sneak back to Sosnoweic

  • Meat Rationing Begins in U.S (WWII)

  • There was temporarily no doubt in the jews mind that Germany would be defeated

    Spring 1944

  • Elie's family is forced into a smaller ghetto (Night)

  • Elie and his father reach Birkenau and are branded with their numbers (Night)

  • The Wiesels are forced onto railway cars with other prisoners (Night)

  • Franklin's 4th Term in Office (WWII)

  • Elie has to have surgery on his foot (Night)

    All the walking the jews had to do caused a pus filled sack on the bottom of his foot and almost had to had his leg/foot amputated

  • Elie Wiesel's father dies from dysentery in the Buchenwald concentration camp (Night)

  • American troops come to Buchenwald and Elie finally gets to leave (Night)

  • All of Buchenwald was evacuated by the Americans (Night)

  • Elie almost dies 3 days after leaving Buchenwald (Night)

  • The Hiroshima Bombing (WWII)

  • WWII Ends

  • Vladek Returns From the Camps (Maus)

    no specific day/month