Night and Maus Timeline

  • Vladek and Anja married

    Vladek and Anja married

    Vladek and Anja are married on this day
  • Richieu

    Richieu

    Richie is born (Anja and Vladek's 1st son)
  • Sanitarium

    Sanitarium

    Anja goes to a mental santarium to help with her depression and Vladek goes with to keep her calm.
  • Return home

    Return home

    Anja and Vladek return from the sanitarium.
  • Polish Army

    Polish Army

    Vladek is drafted into the Polish army
  • Volunteers

    Volunteers

    Vladeck volunteers to work on labor camp jobs rather than attend a POW camp.
  • Anja's Parents

    Anja's Parents

    Anja's parents are sent to a gas hamber in Auschwitz
  • Public Transportation

    Public Transportation

    German-Jews are no longer allowed to ride on public transportation
  • Warsaw ghetto

    Warsaw ghetto

    Beginning of deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to the new extermination camp, Treblinka.
  • Moishe the Beadle escapes

    Moishe the Beadle escapes

    This is when Moishe the Beadle escapes the gestapo
  • Warsaw Resistance

    Warsaw Resistance

    First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
  • Wiesel family arrives at Birkenall, Poland

    Wiesel family arrives at Birkenall, Poland

    Wiesel family arrives at Birkenall, Poland
  • New chamber

    New chamber

    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.
  • Birkenau

    Birkenau

    The convoy with Elie Weisel and his father arrives at Birkenau and are seperated from their family
  • Final Solution Speech

    Final Solution Speech

    Himmler talks openly about the Final Solution at Posen
  • 106 castration

    106 castration

    The chief surgeon at Auschwitz reports that 106 castration operations have been performed.
  • Polish Border

    Polish Border

    Russian troops reach former Polish border.
  • Auschwitz

    Auschwitz

    Vladek and Anja are sent to Auschwitz
  • The little ghetto march

    The little ghetto march

    Elie Wiesel and his family march out of the little ghetto
  • Moved into ghetto

    Moved into ghetto

    The Wiesel family is expelled from their home in Sighet and forced to move into the ghetto.
  • Railway cars

    Railway cars

    The Wiesels join the last group of deportees aboard a railway cattle car.
  • Elie and his father were sent to Auschwitz.

    Elie and his father were sent to Auschwitz.

    Elie and his father were sent to Auschwitz
  • 1st Liberation

    1st Liberation

    Russian troops liberate the first concentration camp, at Majdanek.
  • Anne Frank

    Anne Frank

    Anne Frank and her family are sent to Auschwitz
  • Happiest Moment

    Happiest Moment

    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
  • Closed Chamber

    Closed Chamber

    Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
  • Evacuations

    Evacuations

    Elie Weisel and Shlomo are evacuated from their camp on a death march
  • Elie Wiesel's dad dies

    Elie Wiesel's dad dies

    Elie Wiesl's dad dies of a sickness on that night
  • Liberation

    Liberation

    Elie is liberated from the concentration camp he was kept in
  • Home

    Home

    Vladeck goes back to his home to see Anja after thinking he would never see her again.
    (Picture foreshadows him surviving)