Maus Timeline

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    Vladek goes to the army

    Vladek is called into active duty in the Polish Army.
  • Richieu is born

    Vladek and Anja have their first child.
  • Sanitarium

    After Anja gets depressed, Vladek takes her to the Sanitarium.
  • Returing to Sosnoweic

    Vladek and Anja return home to Sosnoweic.
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    Vladek is taken Prisoner

    Vladek is in war with the Germans and he is taken prisoner to the POW camps and to a labor camp.
  • WW2 Event

    Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them.
  • Vladek is released

    Vladek is released from being prisoned by the Germans.
  • WW2 Event

    Germany and Italy arbitrate a decision on the division of the disputed province of Transylvania between Romania and Hungary
  • Period: to

    Elie first meets Moishe the beadle

    Elie first met Moishe the Beadle.
  • WW2

    Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States. (It could effect Elie because it could be a reason why the U.S. liberates the camps that Elie is in)
  • Vladek's in-laws' Death

    Anja's parents are sent to the gas chambers.
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    No one listens to Moishe

    No one pays attention to what happen to Moishe the Beadle when he was in the concentration camps.
  • Period: to

    Richieu's Death

    Tosha poisoned her children and Vladek's son to avoid the gas chambers.
  • Anja and Vladek are in hiding

    Anja and Vladek hide behind a shoe hill to avoid going to Auschwitz.
  • Vladek and Anja are found

    Vladek and Anja are found by the Gestapos..
  • Auschwitz

    Vladek and Anja arrive at Auschwitz.
  • Leave home

    Elie and his family are forced to leave their homes and line up in the streets.
  • Ghetto

    Elie and his family march to the ghettos.
  • Arriving at the camps

    Elie spends his first day in the camp and gets his A-7713 tattooed on his arm.
  • Surgery

    Elie goes to surgery for his foot in the Auschwitz infirmary.
  • Surgery

    Elie goes into surgery because of his foot.
  • Red army

    Elie decides not to stay in the infirmary to be with his dad, but then the red army liberates the patients in the infirmay at Auschwitz.
  • Elie's Father Dies

    Elie's father dies in a bunk at Buchenwald.
  • WW2

    US troops cross the Rhine River at Remagen
  • Elies's Freedom

    Elie is liberated when the U.S. troops arrive at the concentration camps.
  • WW2

    Germany surrenders to the western Allies