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Czortkow became part of Poland in 1918, 16 years before Lola was born.
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Hitler and the Nazi Party are telling the world that "Jews are a diseased race".
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Lola was born.
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A German officer was killed in Paris by a Jew. Sets off a backlash known as the Night of Broken Glass.
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Czortkow states having rolling blackouts. All the streetlights are turned off, and Jews tape black paper over their windows so German bombers can not see them when flying overhead.
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Six million Jews, of the 9 million who lives in Europe, died during WWII. 1 1/2 million were Jewish children. Adults had a 33% chance of surviving, and children only had a 10% chance.
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Hitler invades Poland, where 3.3 million Jews live.
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Lola is free to walk around the market place with her mother. The Russian soldier arrive.
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The Russians take over Czortkow.
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Hitler comes up with a plan to execute all of Europe's Jews. It's called the Final Solution.
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Lola is 6 and a half and is going to nursery school at her dads cousin's house. There are about a dozen other children there, too.
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It was a Sunday, the Germans arrived marching with gun and tank, wearing goggles, tall black boots, and leather jackets.
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The Germans made a law that anyone providing shelter to Jews, giving them food, or even selling them food, was to be killed.
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Japan bomb Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, bringing the Americans into the war.
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The Jews in Czortkow are confined to a ghetto, a series of streets and buildings where Jews must live. You must have proper papers to leave the ghetto.
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Lola's dad dies at home.
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The first 'action' comes. For Germans, it means a day set aside for rounding up huge members of Jews and sending them by train to the concentration camps. Lola, her mother, and her grandmother hid in a narrow space between a storage area wall and a wall of another apartment building next door.
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Today is Purim, a Jewish holiday. Lola's mother, a cousin, and 2 other woman were killed by a German soldier, Kurt Kollner, enacting revenge for another German Soldier going into his territory and "shooting his Jews".
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A few months after Lola's mother was killed, Babcia takes Lola takes her aside right before bed, explaining she will be sneaking out of the ghetto that night. Babcia does not go with Lola. Tekla picks Lola up at the bridge.
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Tekla's son-in-law works in the fields even though it is still windy and cold. Lola is always scared of him.
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A final "action" happened, and the town of Czortkow was " liquidated", and all the Jews were killed, including Babcia.
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a couple months after Lola got to the house, a man and woman came to the room where Lola was. The dog never barks. Lola pretends to be a 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 by 6 1/2 foot hole with three other Jews.
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Just after the new year of 1944, 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 the tanks rumbling and the crack of gunfire. To Lola, this time it is a wonderful sound.
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Anna come and tells them they have been
"liberated" by the Russians. Before sunrise, Lola and the others crawl out of the hole they were in for 9 months. -
Russians control Czortkow which was officially liberated on March 23, 1944.
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Germans come back to Czortkow trying to reclaim the territory. Lola had to leave Czortkow because Rose would't take her back to the farmhouse.
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Lola is 9 1/2 years old 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 stranger's house, leaving her there, Russian soldiers come and take her to 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 the 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 he has to now go back to where they came. Sergei, a man who happened to to be at city hall, offers to take Lola.
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Germans 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 the Russians are pushing them eastward. This is the day America thinks is the beginning of the end of WWII.
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Lola turns 10 years old while living with Sergei. She is sad upset but will not let anyone know. She is dealing with big emotions over losing her family and being unwanted. Sergei has been writing letters to Cortkow 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 in Lwow now. He is one of Lola's mother's brothers. Uncle George goes to Keiv to look for Lola, 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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Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrendered. Known as "Victory in Europe Day'.
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Poles and Ukrainians are still killing Jews even though the war is over.
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America drops two atomic bombs on Japans.
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Japan surrenders. Known as "Victory over Japan day".
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Lola gets onto 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 an 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 the Poles and Jews has not gone away.
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Lola, Uncle George, Uncle George's family, and Uncle Itch are moving from country to country trying to escape the persecution of Jews.
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Lola finds herself in Eschwege, Germany in a displaced person's camp run by the United Nations. She spent 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 clearance to travel to America. Uncle George and his family received clearance the year prior but waited for Lola.
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Lola tarts high school but drops out to work full time because she takes car of herself, not asking her aunt or uncle for anything.
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Lola is a teenager but still feels like a child. Being able to walk is the only thing she knows for sure.
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Lola graduates at 16 with her comptometer operator certificate. She starts working at Saks Fifth Avenue on 34th Street during the day and attend's high school at night but again drops out.
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Lola goes to Brighton Breach where she meets her husband. He is 11 years older and from Poland as well.
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Lola and Walter get married. Lola goes back to school and earns her high school diploma.
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Lola's 21 and worked until the birth of her first child, Deborah Renee. She was named after her mother Dworja and after Walter's mother Rachel. They live in a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn.
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Lola's second child was born, Michael Jay. He is named after Walter's father and Lola's father. Walter has gone to school to design and create patterns for coats and suits. They moved to the suburbs in Long Island.
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Lola is 28 years old now and has been living in America for 13 years. She opens the New York Post and sees an article with the headline NAZI OFFICER GETS LIFE IN 9 MURDERS. Kurt Kullner was found guilty for killing Jews in Czortkow in the years 1942-1943. Her mother's murder was held accountable is a German court for his wrongdoings.
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Lola gives birth to her third 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 for an interview for a book on hidden children. Jane unlocks not just Lola's words but her emotions too.
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Jane Make's book is published in 1993
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Anna Aksenczuk, the non-Jew who hid Lola in the hole, was officially recognized as one of the "righteous" at the "The Righteous Among the Nations" in Israel.
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Lola receives a letter from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., looking for artifacts that survived the war. Lola donates the dress she wore for 9 months.
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Lola writes and publishes The Hidden Girl: A true Story of the Holocaust.
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Lola's dress travels to different states and cities. Lola travels with it and Sara Bloomfeild. Sara gets Lola to publicly speak about the events of WWII and the dress
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Lola passed away at age 79.