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Vladek is Born
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Vladek moves to Sosnowiec in late 1936 and marries Anja in February.
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Vladek's wife gives birth to their first son, Richieu. (Here is a photograph of Vladek that hung in Vladek's bedroom for years after the war)
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Vladek receives a letter from the Polish government drafting him to the army.
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The Polish Army sends Vladek to the front to fight the Germans. The Polish lose this encounter and Vladek is taken as a prisoner. (This is a map of the Polish-German fronts during World War 2)
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Vladek and his family are forced out of their home and into their first ghetto. (page 82)
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Vladek and Anja are captured by Nazis as they attempt to be smuggled into Hungary and are taken to Auschwitz instead.
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Vladek gets a job as a tinman with hopes that this job will keep him safe from the Nazi selections.
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Vladek starts to work as a shoemaker, and this job proves even more valuable with the benefits of fixing every guard's shoes.
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The Nazis march the prisoners out of Auschwitz toward Gross-Rosen. (This photograph is of the thousands, even millions of jews and other prisoners of Auschwitz as they marched to a new camp)
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Vladek finally finds Anja in Sosnowiec after he had spent some time searching for her, and the two are very happy.
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Anja commits suicide, and both Art and Vladek are torn apart by it not only because of what happened, but because she didn't leave a note. (This comic panel is taken from Art's comic "Prisoner on a Hell Planet" about his mother Anja's suicide)
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Vladek dies of conestive heart failure.
