1928 - Born, Lodz, Poland.

1939 - Tramiel, then named Idek Tramielski, and his mother and father are forced from their home into a ghetto after German troops occupy Lodz and relocate the city's Jews.

1944 - Tramiel and his family are placed on an Auschwitz-bound train. Tramiel and his father are assigned to concentration camp construction in Hanover, Germany. His father dies after being injected with gasoline.

1945 - U.S. Army liberates Auschwitz.

1947 - Marries Helen Goldgrub. He immigrates to New York first.