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

Lina and her family were taken.

Jun 14, 1941

Lina and passengers on train.

Period: Jun 16, 1941 to Jul 28, 1941

[dates estimated]

Passengers were being sold in groups.

Jul 28, 1941

[dates estimated]

Went to bathhouse and got washed.

Jul 29, 1941

[date estimated]

Arrived at the shantytown.

Jul 29, 1941

[date estimated]

Proposed the agreement.

Aug 1, 1941

[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.

Aug 2, 1941

[date estimated]

Lina is asked to draw the commander.

Sep 3, 1941

[date estimated]

Andrius' birthday.

Nov 20, 1941

Jonas is sick.

Dec 6, 1941

Jonas recovers.

Period: Dec 6, 1941 to Dec 21, 1941

[dates estimated]

Christmas Eve.

Dec 24, 1941

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

Jonas gives the lucky rock to Andrius.

Dec 25, 1941

[date estimated]

Lina and Jonas held in captivitiy in Siberia.

Period: Jan 1, 1942 to Jan 1, 1954

[dates estimated]

On barges.

Period: Mar 6, 1942 to Aug 29, 1942

[dates estimated]

Lina's birthday.

Mar 22, 1942

NKVD burst in.

Apr 8, 1942

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

Stopped in Makarov to sleep.

Apr 17, 1942

[date estimated]

Boats delayed.

Apr 30, 1942

[date estimated]

Just arrived at Trofimovsk.

Aug 30, 1942

[date estimated]

Split into 25 groups.

Sep 1, 1942

[date estimated]

First snowstorm.

Sep 26, 1942

[date estimated]
Lasted 2 days.

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

Nov 5, 1942

[date estimated]

Dysentery, typhus, and scurvy crept into camp.

Dec 19, 1942

[date estimated]

Weather continued, relentless.

Dec 25, 1942

Mother dies.

Jan 5, 1943

Buried Lina's mother.

Jan 7, 1943

[date estimated]

Lina painted a map of where her mother was buried.

Jan 8, 1943

[date estimated]

Lina went to get wood.

Jan 9, 1943

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

Jonas has scurvy.

Feb 6, 1943

[date estimated]

Doctor shows up at the camp.

Feb 7, 1943

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

Sun rises after months of darkness.

Mar 19, 1943

[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.

Jul 9, 1954

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.