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Vladek Speilgman is born
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Vladek meets Anja Zylberg in Sosnowiec
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Vladek moves to Sosnowiec
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Vladek marries Anja
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Police arrest seamstress for communist messages
Anja has been translationing communist messagaes into german -
Vladek starts a factory in Bielsko
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Germans enter sosnowiec
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Vladek and Anja's fist son ichieu is born
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Anja and Vladek go to sanitarium
On the journey they witness nazi flags and German progroms -
Vladek gets drafted to polish army
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World War II begins with Germany invading Poland
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Vladek is capture by Germans and becomes a war prisoner
Commits war crimes to survive -
Vladek is kept in a war prison near Nuremberg
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Vladek volunteers for work assignments
During this time it is confirmed by a Rabbi that Vladek will be released in Feburary -
On Parshas trmua Vladek is sent to Poland
though the train ends in Lubin -
Vladek dressed as a Poland sneaks back to Sosnonwiec
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S.S starts grabbing jewish people of the streets
Vladek again finds himself in a close call -
Ilzecki offer vladek's son richieu a safe home
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The gemeinder sent anotice that jews had to vacate
All jewish people in Sosnoweic were order to relocate to Stara Sosnoweic by januaray 1,1942. Vladek and his group of 11 are moved into 2 1/2 small rooms. -
Nahum cohn and son hung in the streets for black maerket
Vladek traded with them and could have easily been ratted out for a chance at a better ending than death -
Vladek was forced to give up grandparents
The jewsih police came to say that they would keep coming back and taking them if they didn't give them up. The Karmios were sent to Auschwitz to be gassed. -
"All jews over 70 years old will be transfered to Theresienstadt"
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30,000 jews are sent to Ausschwitz from Sosnoweic
Vladek and Anja were stamped and allowed to go home -
Jews still in Sosnoweic must go live in a vilage in Srodula
Everyone worked in German facotories and Richieu was sent to Zawiercie to find safeety from the brutality -
Germans took kids to Auschwitzs
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Vladek and his family surivived for so long in bunkers
though they were caught when they made the mistake of letting a Jewish informer live -
Most jews in Srodula ghetto were sent to Auschwitz, but Vladek and Anja are in hiding
Vladek escaped with the help of his cousin Haskel and then Miloch who promised to hide him when the Germans came for everyone -
All Jews in Zawiercie are sent to Auschwitz.
Tosha poision herself, Richieu, and two other children to avoid their fate in Auschwitz -
Srodula ghettos have been emptied, Vladek and Anja set out to Sosnowiec
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Vladek and Anja found safety in the homes of Mr. Lukowski though mainly Ms. Motonowa
THey found comfort at Ms. Motonowabut quickly left after she was searched Gestapo -
Vladek and Anja are tricked by smugglers and sent to Auschwitzs
Vladek after recieving proof that it was safe to go decided to travel with the smugglers. The Gestapo stopped the train an hour into their journey in Katowice, and took them to Auschwitzs. -
In Oswlecim was Auschwitz wjere Vladek was stripped of his possesions and given clothes and a number
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In the spring Vladek is assigned as a tinman
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A kipo wants to learn english from Vladek so he keep him and Mandelbaum safe
Though Mandelbaum is taken soon after when Vladek is hidden when they empty the camp -
Vladek has contact with Anja
Vladek meets a woman named Mancie who helps him get into contact with Anja whos at Birkenau. Vladek found his way over by taking a assignment at Birkenau. -
Period: to
Over 100,000 Jews were gassed in Auschwitzs
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Vladek become a shoe maker
He recieved food and special treatment for his skill and was able to helpp Anja with her Kapo -
Vladek starts doing black work in the gas chambers
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Auschwitz is forced to evacuate: death marches
Vladek finds a friend who offfer to hide him though the camps are said to be bombed so everyone leaves. -
Vladek is sent to Dachau
Vladek was stuck on a train for days without food or water only surviving with a blanket and snow -
In Dachau Vladek ran into problems
He had lice, which meant he was not allowed to eat and got an infection in his hand, though after meeting a french man his bad luck turned around -
Germans surrender leaving all jewish free but not safe
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Vladek gets to poland and from there home
After hiding out, Vladek is rescued by the americans who get him to Belsen and then from there he goes to Poland, then home -
Vladeks second son Art Spielgman is born in Sweden
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The Spielgman family moves to New York
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Anja commits suicide
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Vladek Spielgman dies of heart attack
