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Vladek Spiegelman is born.
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Vladek goes by train to see his cousins during the holidays, as he does every year. When he makes it to his destination, his cousin has a girl in mind that he thinks Vladek would like. Anja, would later become Vladek's wife.
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Vladek Spiegelman, in Poland before the war, married a woman 6 years younger than him named Anja, who he had met not too long before. This event is only a small bit of time before their real struggle as Jews begins.
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Vladek is sent to fight with the Polish army in WWII
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Vladek is captured by the enemy and put in a Prisoner of War camp (POW)
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Family friend Orbach helps Vladek escape.
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Vladek is reunited with his family and his wife Anja.
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The Jewish population of Sosnowiec are relocated by force into ghettos
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Vladek's father is sent away to be killed in a death camp.
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The Jews from Sosnowiec are put into yet another ghetto
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Vladek and Anja escape through bribery but Anja's parents are not able to escape and are sent to a death camp.
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Anja and Vladek's son is killed after Anja's sister commits suicide.
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Jews in the camp are sent to Concentration camps, but Anja and Vladek are able to hide.
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The couple are trying to escape and are caught by Nazi's while in the midst of leaving on a train.
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Nazi soldiers march the Jews to another death camp- Dachau.
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Vladek and his friend Shivek meet Americans after being saved from the camp by them
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The German army surrenders
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Born in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Anja Speigelman committed suicide as a result of Vladek destroying her war time memoirs that she had created. Vladek soon after went on to marry Mala, another Holocaust survivor.
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Vladek dies