Between Shades of Gray Timeline by Nick Hazel, Reid Clark, and Nick Garvis

By thegarvdog

  • Lina and her family were taken.

  • Period: to

    Lina and passengers on train.

    [dates estimated]

  • Passengers were being sold in groups.

    [dates estimated]

  • Went to bathhouse and got washed.

    [date estimated]

  • Arrived at the shantytown.

    [date estimated]

  • Proposed the agreement.

    [date estimated]
    Points:
    1. Agree to be part of collective farm.
    2. Pay 200 rubles per person.
    3. Everyone is a criminal, and is sentenced to 25 years hard labor.

  • Threatened to sign document.

    [date estimated]

  • Lina is asked to draw the commander.

    [date estimated]

  • Andrius' birthday.

  • Jonas is sick.

  • Period: to

    Jonas recovers.

    [dates estimated]

  • Christmas Eve.

    [date estimated]
    They all sat around a table with pictures of their families.

  • Jonas gives the lucky rock to Andrius.

    [date estimated]
  • Period: to

    Lina and Jonas held in captivitiy in Siberia.

    [dates estimated]
  • Period: to

    On barges.

    [dates estimated]

  • Lina's birthday.

  • NKVD burst in.

    [date estimated]
    They told the Vilkas that they had 10 minutes to get ready to leave.

  • Stopped in Makarov to sleep.

    [date estimated]

  • Boats delayed.

    [date estimated]

  • Just arrived at Trofimovsk.

    [date estimated]

  • Split into 25 groups.

    [date estimated]

  • First snowstorm.

    [date estimated]
    Lasted 2 days.

  • Lina's mother hears Kostas (husband) is dead.

    [date estimated]

  • Dysentery, typhus, and scurvy crept into camp.

    [date estimated]

  • Weather continued, relentless.

  • Mother dies.

  • Buried Lina's mother.

    [date estimated]

  • Lina painted a map of where her mother was buried.

    [date estimated]

  • Lina went to get wood.

    [date estimated]
    Met Kretzsky. He let her take the wood and apologizes. Lina feels sorry for him.

  • Jonas has scurvy.

    [date estimated]

  • Doctor shows up at the camp.

    [date estimated]
    He heals Jonas and various others. He tells Lina that her father might be alive.

  • Sun rises after months of darkness.

    [date estimated]
    "I left the jurta to chop wood. I began my walk through the snow, five kilometers to the tree line. That's when I saw it. A tiny sliver of gold appeared between shades of gray on the horizon. I stared at the amber band of sunlight, smiling. The sun had returned."

  • Lina buried a jar of notes in her mother's grave after moving it.

    She wrote a note to any who found the grave, telling them to spread the word about what happened to her. It was later discovered on April 25, 1995 in Kaunas, Lithuania.