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Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania, later becomes Hungary.
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Hitler is elected Chancellor of Germany. Dachau, a death camp opens.
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The Nazis declare that any books they disapprove of should be banned. They burn tens of thousands of books in huge bonfires. This includes many popular children's books, since the author was Jewish.
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Vladek meets Anja. They are engaged within the year.
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Only two years after they first met, Anja and Vladek were married.
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Vladek and Anja have their first son, Richieu. Shortly after Richieu was born, Anja became very depressed.
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Vladek took Anja to the hospital in Czechoslovakia and on the way they saw a swastika in the middle of town. Anja was in the hospital for 3 months before she was healthy enough to return home.
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A decree is issued that Jews older than the age of 15 must carry, at all times, identity cards that mark them as Jews.
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Vladek recieves draft notice to the army in the war against Germany.
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The war began. Vladek was captured as a war prisoner for six weeks. While there, he volunteered for labor assignments to replace German workers who were called to the front.
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Jews must sell their businesses and real estate and hand over their securities and jewelry to the government at artificially low prices.
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Vladek released from prisioner of war camp. He was able to go home to his family. Richieu was now 2 years old. Order sent out through town relocating all Jews to the Stara Sosnowiec quarter. Richieu was taken away, and Vladek never saw him again.
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Approximently 154,000 Polish Jews are concentrated and imprisoned in the Lodz ghetto which established and sealed off from the outside world.
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Construction begins on an addition to the Auschwitz camp, known as Birkenau. Birkenau includes a killing center, which begins operations early 1942.
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Deportation of Jews from the Lodz ghetto to the killing center at Chelmno begins.
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Approximately 10,000 Jews, who had arrived in the Lodz ghetto some six months earlier from Germany, Luxemburg, Vienna, and Prague, are deported to Chelmno. Before they board the trains, their baggage is confiscated.
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Approximately 15,000 Jews in the Lodz ghetto are deported to Chelmno, mostly children inder 10 and individuals that are 65, but it also includes others who are too weak or ill too work.
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15 men were hiding from the vans that were taking all Jews to Aushchwitz. The men then tried to escape to Hungary but were caught and sent along with the rest of the Jews.
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Tosha poisoned her children and poisoned Vladeks son, Richieu, to avoid the gas chambers.
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The Gypsy-family camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau is liquidated, and its inhabitants are killed.
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Members of the Sonderkommando (camp prisoners forced to burn corpses) stage a rebellion at Auschwitz-Birkenau. They succeed in blowing up a gas chamber and crematoria.
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