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Anja
Vladek meet Anja and they were engaged within the year -
The Wedding
2 years after they met, Vladek and Anja got married -
Richieu
Vladek and Anja have their first son, Richieu, and shortly after he was born, Anja became very depressed. -
Going to the Hospital
Vladek took Anja to the hospital in Czechoslovakia. 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 -
Draft notice
Vladek recieves draft notice to the army in the war against Germany -
The War
Vladeck was captured as a war prisoner for six weeks and replaced German workers who were called to the front in volunteered labor assignments -
Relocating
Vladek was released from the prisioner of war camp and 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. -
Registering
On this day, all jews young and old, male and female, healthy and sick, must register at the dienst stadiom for getting their documents inspected and stamped. -
Escape Attempt
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. -
Death of Richieu
Tosha poisoned her children and poisoned Vladeks son, Richieu, to avoid the gas chambers -
Auschwitz
Vladek arrives in Auschwitz -
Teaching English
In exchange for food and clothes, Vladek begins teaching English -
Finding Anja
Vladek is able to get in touch with Anja through a woman at the camp -
Mandelbaum
Vladek's friend whom he had been traveling with was killed. His name was Mandelbaum. -
Birkenau
In the summer of 1944 Vladek was moved to Birkenau, the other building at Auschwitz and he reunites with Anja -
Moment of Happiness
Vladek sees a few thousand women in the new barracks an dhe spots Anja. This is the only happy moment Vladek had at Auschwitz -
Forced to leave
Everyone was forced to evacuate Auschwitz and was forced to march to Gross-Rosen in Germany -
Dachau
Everyone was then moved from Gross-Rosen and were placed in Dachau. At Dachau they did nothing but wait to die. People were becoming sick and dying of typhus. Eventually, everyone evacuated Dachau and were put on a train to Switzerland. -
End of the War
Vladek and friends travel together and are eventually found by a group of Americans when World War 2 ends -
Garmisch Partenkirchen
Vladek moves to a displaced persons camp in Garmisch Partenkirchen. Here Vladek became sick with typhus and diabetes -
Back to Anja
Vladek goes back to Sosnowiec to be with Anja