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Vladek Speigleman meets Anja Zylberberg for the first time in Sosnoweic, Poland. He is introduced to her through his girlfrend at the time, Lucia Greenberg. Exact date unclear.
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Vladek and Anja get married and Vladek moves to Sosnoweic. They move into one of Anja's father's apartments. He gives Vladek partial ownership of the apartment and a gold watch as a wedding gift.
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Vladek, using a generous donation fron Anja's father, sets up his textile factory, and it is up and running by October. Exact date unclear.
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Richieu, Anja and Vladek's first son is born. Exact Date unclear.
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Vladek travels to a sanitarium in Czechoslovakia with Anja. While they were on the train, almost at the sanitarium, they passed a small town, in which a huge swastika flag was hanging. "Everybody- every Jew from the train- got very excited and frightened." (Book I, page 32) Exact date unclear.
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The war starts, and Vladek recieves a draft notice.
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By the beginning of september, Vladek had been sent to the frontier. Exact date unclear.
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Vladek is on the fronteir, and he begins to get shot at. He looks down his gun and sees a man, disguised as a tree. He shoots him and the man falls and drops his gun. He holds up his hands to surrender but Vladek shoots him repeatedly until he dies. Exact date unclear.
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After two hours of fighting on the front, the polish surrender and Vladek, along with his comrades, are captured as prisoners of war and taken to a place near nuremburg. Exact date unclear.
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A notice went up in the P.O.W camp Vladek was in, announcing that workers were needed to replace german workers who were called to the front. Others thought it was a trick, but Vladek refuesd to be left to die in the P.O.W camp.
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On Parshas truma, Vladek and the other prisonsers were released fromt the labor camps. Vladek had had a dream about three months earler in which his grandfather came to him and said he would leave the camp free on parshas truma.
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"Order- All Jews of Sosnowiec must be relocated into the Stara Sosnowiec quarter by January 1, 1942. Non-Jews will be moved into vacated premises." Exact date unclear.
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About a year after Vladek suggests it, Rihieu i sent somewhere where they think he will be safer. As he walks away is the last time he sees him.
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Vladek and Anja had been in hiding while their ghetto was transported to auschwitz. They then came out of hiding and left, not knowing where to go. Exact date unclar.
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Vladek and Anja pay for safe passage to Hungary, but it is actually a trick by collaborators, and they are captured by German soldiers. Exact date unclear.
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Vladek adn Anja arrive at Auschwitz. Exact date unclear.
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Vladek is given the number 175113. Exact date unclear.
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Vladek begins work in a tin shop, as he claims to have been a tinman back in Sosnoweic, although he never had. He picked it up quickly, however. Exact date unclear.
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Vladek begins work as a shoe repairman in a shoe shop. He does well as even though he had never been a shoe repairman, he picks it up quickly. This allows him to get on the good side of German officials. Exact date unclear.
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Vladek goes back to his old job as a tinman, during which time he sees the the inside of a gas chamber because he is assaigned to one to take it apart. Exact date unclear.
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Vladek and his fellow prisoners from Auschwitz walk 100 miles to Grossrosen, another camp.
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Vladek falls ill with typus while in Dachau. Exact date unclear.
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Vladek and many others are put on a nice train, given red cross packages, and freed from Dachau. The war ends a few days later (8 May 1945). Exact date unclear.
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Vladek and Shivek are found by some American soldiers while they are hiding out in an abandoned barn. They know they are safe now. Exact date unclear.
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Vladek and Anja are reunited back in Sosnoweic. Exact date unclear.
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Vladek and Anja travel on a tiny plane with about 10 people going to Sweden. Exact date unclear.
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Anja kills herself without leaving a suicide note to her family and friends.
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Vladek has to go to the hospital in Florida for the third time that month because he had water on his lungs.
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Vladek is brought to La Guardia hospital, in New York. He is released the next morning. Exact date unclear.
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