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Hitler and the Nazi party are telling Germany that the Jews are a diseased race
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Lola was born
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a german officer is killed in paris by a jew. sets off a back flash called the night of broken glass
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Czortkow starts having nightly blackouts. All the streetlights are turned off, Jews have to tape black paper over windows, so German bombers can not see them when flying overhead.
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Hitler invades Poland where 3.3 million jews live
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Lola was free to walk around the marketplace with her mother. Russian soldiers arrive
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the Russians take over the town
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Hitler comes up with an idea to execute all of Europes jews it was called the final soluttion
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Lola is six and a half years old and she is going to nursery school at her fathers cousin's house
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it was a Sunday, the Germans arrived in town marching with guns, tanks, wearing goggeles tall black boots and leather jackets.
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the germans made a law for anyone sheltering jews are killed
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japan bombs pearl harbor, and bring the Americans into world war 2
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The Jews in Czortkow are confined to a ghetto, a series of building where jews must live, you must have the right papers to leave
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lolas dad dies at home
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The first "action" comes, for Germans it means a day set aside for rounding up a huge number of Jews and sending them by train to concentration camps. Lola, her mother, and her grandmother hide in a narrow space between a storage area wall and a wall of another apartment building next door.
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Purim is a Jewish holiday. Lola's mother, a cousin, and 2 other women were killed by a german soldier, kurt kolliner, enacting revenge for another german soldier going into his territory and killing his jews and thought they were the soldiers jews.
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A few months after lola's mother is killed. Babcia takes lola aside right before bed, explaining she will be sneaking out of the ghetto that night Babcia does not go with.
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Telka's son-in-law is working in the field even though it is windy, lola is always scared of him
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the town is declared cleansed of jews
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After a couple of months she got to the house a woman and a man come to the house but the dog never barks and Lola pretends to be deaf and mute.
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the germans are retreating
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lola hears fighting nearby and the Germans were being pushed back
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ann comes and tells him that they have been liberated by the Russians
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Lola and rose and the others crawl out of the hole because czortkow has been liberated by the Russians
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Lola had to walk with the other jews to leave chortkow because the Germans are trying to reclaim it and rose refuses to take her back.
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Lola is 9 1/2 years old when she was found passed out on the side of the road and was picked up
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lola has to beg for food on the side of the street
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the russian soldier drops lola of at the mayors house because his orders have changed
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The Germans disappear completely from czortkow
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the British and Americans landed on the beaches of Normandy france and america thinks this is the end of WWII
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Poles and ukrianians are still killing jews even though the war is over.
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america drops two atomic bombs on japan
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the Americans take victory over japan