Milkweed+Timeline


 * Readers of Historical Fiction must realize that there are two timelines going on in their novels: the character timeline and the historical timeline.**

-Found by Uri -Told Uri that his name was "Stopthief" -"Stopthief" discovered that he was a Gypsy (he was TOLD that he was a Gypsy) -Uri took "Stopthief" to his home -"Stop thief saw the Jackboots and announced that he wanted to be one of them -Uri told "Stopthief" his name - Misha - and his past -Misha met Janina -Misha announced that he was glad he was not a Jew -Misha and Uri ran away from home after hearing shouts and gunshots at night -Misha gave bread to Janina -Misha's ear got shot off -Misha announced that he believed in angels -Misha went to the orphanage -Misha is marching with people to the Ghetto -Misha goes to the Ghetto to talk with Janina -Misha finds a small passage in the brick wall leading outside of the ghetto -Misha and Janina become smugglers -The Nazi soliders announced that if anyone in the ghetto is a smuggler they WILL be killed -Olek is hanged for being a smuggler -Janina's father told Janina not to sneak out with Misha at night anymore -Janina continued to steal, though not following Misha -Misha meets Uri outside the ghetto wall. Uri was working for the Jackboots -The trains were coming to take the Jews out of the ghetto -Uri told Misha not to go on the trains -Janina's father told Misha to bring Janina out of the ghetto and never come back -Misha brought Janina outside but failed to keep her out of the ghetto -Janina went on the trains going to the "ovens" -While Misha was trying to follow Janina, Uri shot him to save his life -When Misha awakes, he found the trains gone and the ghetto emptied -Misha walked on the train tracks to find Janina; "to go to the ovens" -Misha worked for a farmer for three years -After Misha left the barn, he stole things to sell for extremely cheap prices -Misha left Warsaw to go to Philadelphia -In America, he was called Jack -On the streets of Philadelphia, Misha babbled about his life in Warsaw -One young woman stopped to listen to Misha's story -That young woman became Misha's wife -Misha's wife could not stand the way Misha lived, so she left him while she was with child -Years later, Misha's daughter, Katherine, found Misha at his work -Katherine asked Misha to give her daugher, Wendy, a middle name. Misha named her "Janina" -Misha moved in with Katherine and Wendy -Wendy gave Misha the nickname "Poppynoodle"
 * Character Timeline:**

-Hitler tried to get rid of Jews -Hitler made laws that prevented Jews from having freedom. He created concentration camps -Nazi takes Jews out of homes. He takes them to ghetto -Moved to concentration camps -The Nazis were called "Jackboots" -The Nazis hated Jews -The Jew's curfew -The ghetto in which Jews live -the nazi's are clearing out the ghetto -All of the jews living in the ghetto are evacuated and taken to concentration camps -War ends -Adolf Hitler commits suicide. He had Killed up to six million Jews.
 * Historical Timeline:**