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The President of Germany elects Hitler to be chancellor of Germany.
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Hitler rises to power, and no election was ever held.
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Anja is introduced to Vladek by a friend.
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Vladek and Anja's first son, Richieu, is born.
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Anja is sent to a sanitarium in Czechoslovakia to help treat her depression.
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Vladek and Anja return happily from the sanitarium after 3 months.
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Germany invades Poland and starts World War II
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During a battle betwen the Polish and Germans the Germans defeat the Polish and Vladek is taken as a Prisoner Of War
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Jews in German occupied Poland are forced to wear a yellow star
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After several months of imprisonment, Vladek is released from the Germans and returns back to his family.
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The first victims begin to be sent to Auschwitz
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Huge amounts of people began to be placed in a chamber designed to look like a shower. After the groups of people have enter the chambers, a poisonous gas called Zyklon-B was released into the air and the people died in 3 - 30 minutes.
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In towns across German occupied Europe, Jews were moved from within their own towns to seperate ghettos.
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Auschwitz begins to start the mass gassing of Jews
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Jews begin to be taken by train to Auschwitz.
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Thousands of Jews visit the Dienst Stadium to be registered. When they are being registered they are seperated.
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Richieu is sent to Zawiercie with his aunt while the other Jews in Sosnowiec are taken to the ghetto.
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Richieu is poisoned by his aunt Tosha rather than go to Auschwitz.
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The Gestapo begin to hunt the Jews in the Srodula ghetto while Vladek and Anja stay in hiding.
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After Vladek and Anja are captured on their train to Hungary and are betrayed by the smugglers they spend time in jail until they are sent to Auschwitz.
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Within Auschwitz, Vladek was quarantined and teaching English between March and May of 1944.
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Between May and August of 1944, Vladek worked in the tin shop in Auschwitz.
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During a construction job that Vladek is assigned to, he sees Anja for the first time in months.
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Vladek is sent to Birkenau on a construction job.
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Vladek worked in the shoe shop in Auschwitz between August and October of 1944.
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Vladek arranged through bribes of one bottle of vodka and 100 cigarettes to have Anja moved from Birkenau to Auschwitz.
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Vladek began doing black work in October, and was not sure when he was finished, however he told Art that it was most likely one month and he was done in November.
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Vladek returned back to the tin shop for his final 2 months in Auschwitz between November and January of 1944-1945.
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As Russian troops approach, the Germans move many of the prisoners of Auschwitz (including Vladek) to other concentration camps.
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After several stops from Auschwitz, Vladek arrives at the concentration camp of Dachau.
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As Russian and American troops arrive, the prisoners of Dachau are free.
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Vladek's Life Part 1 collage WWII in Europe is over, and efforts to rebuild Europe are made.
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Poland, which was left destroyed after World War II was unsuitable for the Spiegelmans to live. The Spiegelmans then decided to live in Sweden.
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Vladek's second son, Art is born. Art will become the author of Maus I and Maus II as well as several other graphic novels.
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Anja wants to live near what little remaining family the Spiegelmans have left so they move to America to live near her brother Herman.
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Anja's beloved brother, the reason the Spiegelman's moved to America, died in a car crash.
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Art will forever feel guity for her death. He and Vladek were very upset and Anja left no note.
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Much of Maus II is written about this summer that was spent with Vladek.
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Collage of Vladek's life part 2 Vladek dies of congestive heart failiure.
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Documents in the form of a graphic novel the Vladek's life leading up to his capture and life in Auschwitz. Includes the present day relationship between Vladek and his son Art.
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Documents in the form of a graphic novel Vladek's life within Auschwitz. It also includes the present day relationship between Vladek and Art and Art's feelings after Vladek is dead and the results of Maus I's fame.
