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He goes to the frontier against Germany. Ends up in prisoner of war camp.
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After being released from the prisoner of war camp he returns home to Anja and Richieu.
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Vladek sees gestapo shooting at Jewish citizens while going to see a friend.
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While not yet to an official ghetto, Vladek's family makes its first required move to a forced Jewish only community.
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Anja's grandparents are seen for the last time before they are taken away.
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Bunkers or fake walls were made and used to hide people in case of searches.
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In a big stadium all Jews were required to register with the German police and have papers. They were split into the healthy and unhealthy and the unhealthy were taken away.
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A small neighborhood where all and only jews lived.
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Vladek and Anja must make the decision to send their son away with family for his safetey but he ends up dying anyway when his ghetto is evacuated.
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They made bunkers or hiding places in both houses that they lived in to hide during searches.
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Vladek stays at the main camp but Anja is moved to Birkenau.
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When he first arrives at Auschwitz he is held is a small and confined area.
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Although he was not a tinsman, he became one of the best workers and used his job to visit Anja at Birkenau.
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By making shoes Vladek could get food as rewards from certain guards.
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at Auschwitz. Blackwork consisted of heavy physical labor.
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When the war front got too close, prisoners were moved from Poland to Germany.
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After a march of 90 miles Vladek stayed one night in the small camp.
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For one week prisoners were packed tightly into cattle cars. Vladek made a hammock to stay above everyone and reached out the window to eat snow.
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He is marched on by the Germans on foot towards the boarder rather than by train.
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Prisoners are put on a freight train for the next town to be met by American's.
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Instead of Americans they are met by Wehrmacht patrol and marched to a lake to be executed. When they wake in the morning the patrolmen have left.
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They are put in a barn for the night and once again the Germans had left in the morning.
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With Shirek, he finds a newly abandoned house to live in.
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He left with hopes of being exchanged as a war prisoner.
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Vladek speaks english and helps them with odd jobs.
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A displaced persons camp for refugees where he was given identity papers.
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They take a train and stop in Wurzburg.
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When in Belsen, Vladek meets two ladies who know Anja and who help him contact her but tell him not to return to Sosnowiec.
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He takes a train to Poland but loses Shirek and walks the rest of the way for four weeks
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Flies to Sweden with Anja for a new llife.
