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Vladek and Anja are married on this day
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Richie is born (Anja and Vladek's 1st son)
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Anja goes to a mental santarium to help with her depression and Vladek goes with to keep her calm.
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Anja and Vladek return from the sanitarium.
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Vladek is drafted into the Polish army
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Vladeck volunteers to work on labor camp jobs rather than attend a POW camp.
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Anja's parents are sent to a gas hamber in Auschwitz
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German-Jews are no longer allowed to ride on public transportation
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Beginning of deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to the new extermination camp, Treblinka.
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This is when Moishe the Beadle escapes the gestapo
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First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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Wiesel family arrives at Birkenall, Poland
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Newly built gas chamber/crematory III opens at Auschwitz.
With its completion, the four new crematories at Auschwitz have a daily capacity of 4,756 bodies. -
The convoy with Elie Weisel and his father arrives at Birkenau and are seperated from their family
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Himmler talks openly about the Final Solution at Posen
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The chief surgeon at Auschwitz reports that 106 castration operations have been performed.
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Russian troops reach former Polish border.
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Vladek and Anja are sent to Auschwitz
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Elie Wiesel and his family march out of the little ghetto
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The Wiesel family is expelled from their home in Sighet and forced to move into the ghetto.
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The Wiesels join the last group of deportees aboard a railway cattle car.
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Elie and his father were sent to Auschwitz
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Russian troops liberate the first concentration camp, at Majdanek.
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Anne Frank and her family are sent to Auschwitz
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Vladek sees Anja in passing at Auschwitz and just to know she is alive adds to his will to survive.
He states this is his happiest moment at this camp -
Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
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Elie Weisel and Shlomo are evacuated from their camp on a death march
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Elie Wiesl's dad dies of a sickness on that night
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Elie is liberated from the concentration camp he was kept in
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Vladeck goes back to his home to see Anja after thinking he would never see her again.
(Picture foreshadows him surviving)