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Vladek Born
The Survivor's tale begins -
Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
Hitlers appointment as Chancellor of Germany changed the world. His plan was to get rid of politics and make Germany a powerful, unified one party state. -
Vladek marries Anja
The same year that Vladek and Anja are married they have their first son, Richeu, who later dies during the Holocaust. -
Vladek sees a Nazi flag for the first time
While Vladek is bringing Anja to the sanitarium, he sees a Nazi flag for the first time. This is Vladek's first experience with Nazi Germany. Most of the panels around this page have a Nazi symbol as a background. This is foreshadowing the trouble that is yet to come. -
Vladek is drafted into the Polish army
While in the army Vladek is taken prisoner until 1940 -
Germany invades Poland
Germany invades Poland, Beginning WW2 in Europe. Within weeks of the invasion the Polish army was defeated. -
Vladek and his family relocated from Sosnowiec
All Jews living in Sosnowiec are forced to relocate to the Stara Sosnowiec Quarter. The Image for this event is of a German Police force in Sosnowiec during World War Two. -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
After this attack, America joins the war. -
Richeu Killed
Vladek and Anja learn that Richeu was killed a few months after they seperated from him. -
Anja's parents are killed
Anja's parents die in Auschwitz. Most likely they were sent to the gas chambers -
Vladek and Anja sneak back into Sosnowiec
They hide in the house of a Polish woman. They pay her with money and valuables. -
Anja Moved from Birkenau to Auschwitz
Birkenau was a bigger camp next to Auschwitz. Anja is eventually moved from Birkenau to Auschwitz, where Vladek is. -
Vladek and Anja enter Auschwitz
They remain in Auschwitz for ten months before they are freed by American Soldiers. Vladek works as a tinman, cobbler, and digging ditches and performing other manual labor. -
Auschwitz Evacuated
With the war coming to an end, the Nazi's evacuated Auschwitz. Soon after, the prisoners are liberated by the Americans. -
Dachau Liberated
Some of the American troops who liberated Dachau were so appalled by the conditions that they killed at least two groups of captured gaurds. Records indicate that at least 32,000 inmates died at Dachau. -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
Hitler was told that the Russians were only a day or two from overtaking the Chancellory and commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. -
Germany Surrenders
Germany signed an unconditional surrender at the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. -
Vladek in American Run Refugee Camp
The war was over and Vladek and Anja had escaped the horrors of the concentration camp. But it is difficult to say what this meant to them. Their lives had been uprooted, their families killed, and the world had changed greatly. -
Vladek and Anja move from Poland to Sweden
Vladek and Anja had an extreme desire to leave Poland. Vladek tells Art that it was largely because there was nothing left for them there. -
Artie is born
The author of Maus One and Two is born. Art begins to draw professionally at age 16. He studied art and philosophy at Harpur college. -
Spiegelmans immigrate to America
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Anja commits suicide
Possibley a result of the trauma of being in death camps and surving the Holocaust, Anja commits suicide. It is not completely certain wether her suicide is a direct result of the traumas of surviving the Holocoaust because Anja had experienced a state of depression before most of her experiences with the Nazi's took place. However, her traumatic experiences definitely were a large part of the depression that led to her suicide. -
Vladek dies of heart failure
Vladek lives through the hardships of the war and concentration camp to tell his story of survival and the horrors of Nazi Germany. He died of natural causes after having lived what, though not a desirble one, was undoubtedly a full life.
