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After receiving a nasty letter from Vladek's old girlfriend, Anja had to be convinced to marry Vladek, which she is in the end.
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Richeu was Valdek and Anja's first son who did not make it out of the war.
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[Date Unknown Except For "Early 1938"]
Anja gets post-partom depression so her and Vladek go to a sanitarium for a few months. -
As he was in the Polish Reserves Army, Vladek is drafted to fight against the Nazis.
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Germany invades Poland, starting WWII. -
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Britian and France declare war on Germany, responding to the invasion of Poland. -
Vladek received a vision of being released from POW camp on the day of Parshas Truma ealier and was released today.
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Elie met a poor Jewish man named Moishe the Beadle in his small town. They ended up becoming friends and prayed together at the synagogue.
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Japanese bombers attack the naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. -
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The US declares war on Japan, as a response to the Pearl Harbor bombing. -
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The other Axis powers declare war on the US. -
Every Jew in Sosnowiec was commanded to relocate to the Stara Sosnoweic quarter by this day.
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The US halts the Japanese island-hopping campaign at Guadalcanal. -
All Jews went to the Dienst Stadium to register. Some are safe, others not. Among the unsafe are Vladek's father and sister.
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Moishe was captured by the Germans but managed to escape. He came back to the town where Elie was to warn everyone about the Germans, but nobody believed him.
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Nazis order the Jews that remain in Sosnoweic to relocate to a nearby village called Srodula. -
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US and British troops land on Sicily. -
[Date Unknown Besides "Late 1943"]
Vans left the ghetto every Wednesday with more and more people heading to Auschwitz. -
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The Allied troops land on the beaches of Salerno, an Italian city close to Naples. -
Elie noticed that his mother was no longer sending him letters and assumed the worst.
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When they were in the camps, the Jews heard news that Germany would soon fall. So they knew that they wouldn't be in the concentration camps for much longer.
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Allied troops take Rome and liberate it. They can now bomb eastern Germany for the first time. -
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British and US troops land in Normandy, France. This marks the beginning of the end for the Nazis. -
Elie met a French girl in his camp who gave him support and comfort.
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Elie's foot was swolen and the swelling was full of pus. His operation was today.
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Elie's father was begging for water then died later that night from either beatings from the guard or dehydration
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People were starting to get suspicious of the Germans, so the Germans started to get rid of the Jews faster
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