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the war begins
In April, Britain and France guarantee the integrity of Poland's borders after Hitler violates Munich Agreement of 1938 by invading and dismembering Czechoslovakia. In September, Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe. In response, Great Britain, France, and the British Dominions declare war on Germany. In November, the first ghetto is established in Piotrków, Poland. Jews in parts of occupied Poland are forced to wear armbands bearing the Star of David for identification. -
WW2
Germany invaded Poland with out warning sparking the start of WW2 -
Vladek!!!
•In September, 1939, Vladek is fighting in the trenches against the Germans. He is taken prisoner during a skirmish. He is first taken to a POW camp, then to a labor camp. Finally, several months later, he is released. -
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Under attack from both sides, Poland fell quickly, and by early 1940 Germany and the Soviet Union had divided control over the nation, according to a secret protocol appended to the Nonaggression Pact -
World War 2
On April 9, 1940, Germany simultaneously invaded Norway and occupied Denmark, and the war began in earnest. -
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel and his family become residents of Hungary. -
The Second War Of The World
On 22 June 1941, Germany, along with other European Axis members and Finland, invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. -
Elie in 1941
Twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel begins studying the Kabbalah. -
Vladek in 1943
•Vladek continues his story as he walks to his bank with Art. It is now the year 1943. The Jews have been moved to Srodula, and they are forced to work in the shops and factories of Sosnowiec. -
1943
Life for Wiesel and his extended family changed tragically in 1943 and 1944, when Nazi Germany decided that the Jews living in the Axis nations of Eastern Europe — Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria — should share the fate of the rest of European Jewry and be transported to the death camps of Poland. Grandfather Dodye went first, when he and his three sons and their children where taken away in 1943. The following year, Wiesel's entire family, his mother, father and his three sisters, were transport -
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During 1944 and 1945 the United States defeated the Japanese Navy and captured key West Pacific islands, dropping atomic bombs on the country as the invasion of the Japanese archipelago became imminent -
Weisel in 1944
Elie Wiesel is fifteen years old when he and his family are deported in May 1944 by the Hungarian gendarmerie and the German SS and police from Sighet to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister perish; his two older sisters survive. -
Weisel in 44
Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania and lived there until 1944 -
Vladek from Maus
in 1945, when Vladek and his wife Anja emigrate to the US -
Elie And his father in 1945
humanity. SS units evacuate Auschwitz in January. Elie and his father are transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar Germany. Elie's father dies in January; Elie is liberated with the arrival of US troops in April.
