Holocaust Timeline

  • Adolf Hitler/History

    Adolf Hitler/History
    Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of German.
  • Concentration Camp/Maus

    Concentration Camp/Maus
    Concentration camp was created in Dachau.
  • Boycott/History

    Boycott/History
    Boycott of Jewish owned businesses and shops.
  • Marriage/Maus

    Marriage/Maus
    Only two years after they first met, Anja and Vladek were married.
  • Camp/Night

    Camp/Night
    Buchenwald camp was created.
  • Shop/Maus

    Shop/Maus
    Vladek's textile factory is up and running. (Not exact date)
  • Hospital/Maus

    Hospital/Maus
    Vladek took Anja to the hospital in Czechoslovakia and on the way they saw a swastika in the middle of town. Anja was in the hospital for 3 months before she was healthy enough to return home.
  • Draft/Maus

    Draft/Maus
    Vladek recieves draft notice to the army in the war against Germany.
  • Elie/Night

    Elie/Night
    Late December: Elie Wiesel meets Moshe the Beadle.
  • Deportation/History.

    Deportation/History.
    Germans begin to deport more than 65,000 Jews from Europe to Auschwitz
  • Moshe Escapes/Night

    Late in the year: Moshe the Beadle escapes Gestapo slaughter to warn the Jews in Sighet.
  • Factories/Maus

    Factories/Maus
    Vladek and the others had been moved to Srodula and forced to work in factories in Sosnowiec.
  • Border Patrol/Maus

    Border Patrol/Maus
    Anja and Vladek were caught at the border and taken back to Auschwitz.
  • Transportation/Night

    Transportation/Night
    Elie and his family are transported to a ghetto.
  • Nazis/Night

    Nazis/Night
    Nazis arrest Jewish leaders and close synagogues in Transylvania. Jews are quarantined. Nazis confiscate valuables and force transylvainian Jews to wear the yellow Star of David and ban them from restaurants, cafes, and public transportation.
  • 8th Day Of Passover/Night

    8th Day Of Passover/Night
    The jews were no longer allowed to own valuables, belongings were taken away. Correct year, not dates.
  • March/History

    March/History
    Death march from Auschwitz to Southern Poland.
  • Russian Forces/Night

    Russian Forces/Night
    Russian forces liberated Auschwitz.
  • Death/Night

    Death/Night
    Late January: Chlomo Wiesel dies in a bunk at Buchenwald.
  • Surgery/Night

    Surgery/Night
    Elie undergoes surgery in the Auschwitz infirmary. Chlomo and Elie run with evacuees to Gleiwitz, where they and others board open cattle cars for a ten-day ride to Buchenwald in central Germany.
  • Russian/History

    Russian/History
    Russian reached Buchenwald.
  • WW2/Maus

    WW2/Maus
    World War 2 ends.
  • Sick/Maus

    Sick/Maus
    Vladek moves to a displaced persons camp in Garmisch Partenkirchen. Here Vladek became sick with typhus and diabetes.
  • Reunite/Maus

    Reunite/Maus
    Vladek and Anja reunite
  • Elie/Night

    Elie/Night
    Elie moves to the U.S.
  • Adolf Hitler/History

    Adolf Hitler/History
    Adolf Hitler is captured in Argentina.
  • Prize/Night

    Prize/Night
    Elie Wiesel won the nobel prize.