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czortkow became a part of Poland.
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hitler tells the world that jews are a diseased race
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Lola was born
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a German officer is killed by a Jew triggering the night of broken glass
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czorkow starts having rolling black outs
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6 million Jews are killed in the second world war.one and a half a million were jewish children who only had a 10% chance to survive
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hitler invades Poland where 3.3 millian jews live
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Lola is free to walk around the marketplace with her mother russiasn soldires arrive
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the Russians take over the town
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hitler comes up with a plan to kill all of Europe its called the final solution.
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lola is 6 and a half and goes to nursery school with about a dozen other kids there
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it was a Sunday the german soldir arvied in town marching with guns and tanks.
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german laws say any one who helps jews are to be kill
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor in Hawaii bringing the Americans into the war
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the jews are confined in ghettos must have proper papers to leave the ghettos
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Lola dad dies at home
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the first action to Germans it means to round up jews and train them to concentren camps Lola and her family hide in a wall.
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a few months after her mom is killed babcha explains
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today is Purim day Lola mom and cousin are killed by a german officer
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teklas son in law works in the field Lola is always afraid of him
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a final action happened and the town of czortkow was liquidated and all Jews were killed including babcia
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a couple months after Lola gets to the house , a man and a woman came to the room where Lola was. The dog never barks. Lola pretends to be deaf and mute. The son-in-law says that the next day he is taking Lola to the Gestapo. Tekla takes Lola in the middle of the night to Anna where she is put into a 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 foot hold with 3 other Jews.
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just after the year anna tells lola and the others that the germans are losing the war and retreating.
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lola and the others hear fighting nearby.they can hear tanks rumbling and the crack of gun fire. to lola this is a wonderful sound.
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Anna comes and tells they have been liberated by the Russians.before sunrise Lola and the others crawl out of the hole they were in for 9 months
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Russians control czortkow Which was officially liberated on march 23 1944
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germans come back to czortkow trying to reclaim their territory Lola had to leave czortkow because rose wouldn't take her to the farm house.
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Lola is 9 and a half and was found passed out on the ground when walking from czortkow.a man who knew her father finds her and brings her to a strangers house and leaves her there.Russians soldires come and take her dzymalow.
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Lola has to beg for food.A Russian soldier offers to take her to the orphanage in keiv
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the Russian soldier has to drop Lola off in a small town of gritsev. he explains to the mayor that he was taking lola to the orphanage in keiv but his plans have changed and now he has to go back to were they came.sergei a man who happens to be at city hall offers to take lola
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German completely disappear from czortkow
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American and british soldiers land on the beaches of Normandy France and begin to push the Germans westward while Russians are pushing them eastward.this day america thinks is the beginning of the end of WWll.
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Lola turns 10 years old while living with Sergei she is sad and upset but will not let anyone know.She is dealing with big emotions over losing her family and being tossed from one place to another.Feelings of being unwanted.Sergei has been writing letters to czortkow to try and find family of Lola's.
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Sergei finally gets Into contact with Lola's uncle George he is living Lwow he is one of Lola's mother's brother's.uncle George goes to Keiv not realizing she wasn't in the orphanage.He goes without papers and is placed in jail where he gets really sick.
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Germany surrendered. known as victory in Europe day.
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poles an Ukrainians are still killing Jews even though the war is over.
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america drops 2 atomic bombs on japan.
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Japan surrenders.Known as victory over japan day.
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Lola gets on a train with a man named Romek heading to Krakow to be reunited with her uncle George.When she gets there she feels no emotions when reunited.She's numb even though she knows it is a emotional moment.
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Lola's uncle Isaac shows up at uncle George's house.Lola likes Krakow .however they don't stay long and end up leaving because the tension between
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Lola,uncle George,uncle George's family and uncle Itch are moving country to country trying to escape the persecution of Jews
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Lola finds herself in eschwege germany in a displaced persons camp run by the United nations.She spends over a year there.Lola tries to go to Israel because she doesn't want to go to America.
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Lola finally gets clearence to travel to America.Uncle George and his family received clearance the year prior but waited for Lola.
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Lola starts high school but drops out to work full time
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Lola is a teenager but feels like a child.the only thing she knows for sure is she can walk.this is stemming from her trauma during WWll.
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Lola graduates at 16 with her comptometer operator certificate.she starts working at saks 34th Street during the day and goes to high school at night,but again drops out.
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Lola goes to Brighton beach where she meets her husband.he is 11 years older and from Poland too.
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Lola and Walter get married.Lola goes back to school and gets her high school diploma.
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Lola is 21 and worked until the birth of her first child Deborah Renee. she was named after her mother Dworja and after Walters mother Rachel.they live in a one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn
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Lola's second child is born Michael Jay.He is named after Walters father and Lola father Walter has gone to school to design and create coats and suits.they move to the suburbs in long island.
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Lola is 28 years old and has been living in america for 13 years she opens the new york posts an article headlined with Nazi officer gets life in 9 murders
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Lola gives birth to her 3rd child Jeffery Scott he is named after Lola's paternal grandfather and her oldest uncle.
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50 years of silence was broken when Jane marks asked Lola a interview. for a book on hidden children jane unlocks not just lola's words but her emotions too.
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Jane marks book on hidden children during WWll was published.
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Anna aksenczuk the non-jew who hid Lola in the hole was officially recognized as one of the righteous.
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Lola gets a letter from the United States holocaust memorial looking for artifacts that survived the war. Lola donates the dress she wore for 9 months
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Lola dress travels to different states and city's lola travels with it and sara bloomfeild Lola gets to publicly speak about the events o WWll Andy the dress
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Lola writes and publishes the hidden girl a true story of the Holocaust .
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Lola passes away at the age of 79