-
Hitler and the Nazi party are telling the world that "Jews are a diseased race"
-
Lola was born
-
A German officer is killed in Paris by a jew. sets off a backlash known as the night of the broken glass
-
Czortkrow starts having rolling blackouts. all the streetlights turned off, and Jews taped black tape to their windows so German bombers could not see them when flying over head
-
Lola is free to walk with her mother around the marketplace. The Russian soldiers arrive
-
6 million Jews out of the 9 million who lived in Europe, died during wwii, 1 1/2 million of those Jews were children
-
Hitler invades Poland, where 3.3 million Jews live
-
The Russians take over Czortkrow
-
Hitler comes up with a plan to execute all of Europe's Jews. Its called the final solution
-
It was a Sunday. The Germans arrived in town marching with guns and tanks, wearing goggles, tall black boots, and leather jackets.
-
The Germans made a law that anyone providing shelter to Jews, giving them food, or even selling them to food, was to be killed.
-
the Americans teamed up with the British, the Russians and the Australians to form allies. against the japanese
-
Lola is six and a half years old, and is going to nursery school at her fathers cousins house. There is about a dozen other kids there too.
-
The Jews in Czortkrow are confined to a ghetto, a series of streets and buildings where Jews must live. you must have proper papers to leave the ghetto
-
The first action comes. For Germans it means a day set aside for rounding up huge numbers of Jews, and sending them by train to the concentration camps. Lola, her mother, and her grandmother hide in a narrow space between a storage area wall of another apartment building next door.
-
Lola's dad dies at home
-
Today is Purim, a Jewish holiday. Lolas mother, a cousin and two other were killed by a German soldier, Kurt Kollner, enacting revenge for another German soldier going into his territory and "shooting his Jews"
-
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 Lola. Tekla picks up Lola up at the bridge.
-
Tekla's son-in-law works in the fields even though it is still windy and cold. Lola is always scared of him
-
A final action happened, and the town of Czortkrow was liquidated and all the Jews were killed including babcia.
-
A few 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-mute. the son in law says that the next day he is taking Lola to gestapo. Tekla takes Lola in the middle of the night to Anna, where she is put in a 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 foot hole with three other jews.
-
Just after the new year of 1944, Anna tells Lola and the others that the Germans are losing the war and retreating
-
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.
-
Anna comes 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 Czortkrow which was officially liberated March 23 1944
-
Germans come back to Czortkrow trying to reclaim the territory. Lola had to leave Czortkrow because rose wouldn't take her back to the farmhouse.
-
Lola is 9 1/2 years old and was found passed out on the ground when from Czortkrow. a man who knew her father finds her and brings her to a strangers house, leaving her there. Russian soldiers come and take her to Dzymalow.
-
Lola has to beg for food. a Russian soldier offers to take her to the orphanage in Kiev.
-
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 Kiev, but his plans have been changed and he has to go now go back to where they came, Sergei, a man who happened to be at city hall, offers to take Lola.
-
The Germans completely disappear from Czortkrow.
-
American and British soldiers landed in France, to the west of Germany. By this point the Russians, fighting east of Germany, had already freed Poland. But June 6- known as d-day is the day Americans think of as the beginning of the end of a war.
-
Lola turns ten 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 Czortkrow to try to find the family of Lola
-
Sergei finally gets in contact with uncle . he is living in lwow now. he is one of Lola's mothers brothers, Uncle george goes to Kiev 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
-
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
-
Germany surrendered this is known as V-E day "victory in Europe day."
-
poles and Ukrainians are still killing Jews even though the war is over.
-
America dropped two atomic bombs on japan
-
VJ day " victory over Japan day"
-
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. shes numb even though she knows it is an emotional moment.
-
Lola's uncle Issac shows up at uncle georges house. Lola likes krakow.
-
Lola, Uncle George. Uncle George's family. and uncle itch are moving from country to country trying to escape the persecution of jews
-
Lola finds her self in a displaced persons camp run by the united nations. she spent over a year there.
-
Lola receives permission to go to America, they leave bremen Germany. on a converted military troop transport ship called general S.D Sturgis. Lola falls seasick
-
Lola starts high school and is enrolled Seward park high school on Essex street. but later drops out to work on herself and other things
-
Lola turns 15 years old. she feels as if she is a young woman already
-
she gets her certificate and Comptometer operator
-
Lola goes to brighton beach where she meets her husband. He is 11 years older and from Poland as well
-
Lola and walter get married. Lola goes back to school and gets her high school diploma.
-
Lola is 21 pregnant with her first child, Deborah renee.
Deborah after her mothers Jewish name, Dworja. and after Walters mother Rachel. they live in a one bedroom apartment in brooklyn. -
Lola's second son Michael Jay is born.
-
Lola is 28 years old and has been living in a America for 13 years she opens the New York post and sees the article with the headline NAZI OFFICER GETS LIFE IN PRISON IN MURDERS. Kurt Kollner was found guilty of killing jews in czorkrow in the years 1942-1943 her mothers murderer was held accountable in a German court for his wrongdoings
-
Lola's son Jeffery Scott is born he is names for my fathers father, Jakov, and for my oldest uncle Shmil
-
50 years silence was broken when Jane marks asks Lola for an interview for a book on the Hidden children, Jane unlocks not just Lolas words but her emotions too.
-
Janes marks book on hidden children in wwii published.
-
Anna aksencuk, the non Jew who hid Lola in the hole, was officially recognized as one of the righteous among the nations in israel.
-
Lola receives a letter from the united States holocaust memorial museum in Washington DC. looking for artifacts that survived the war. Lola donates the dress she wore for 9 months
-
Lola writes and published the hidden Girl: A true story on the holocaust
-
Lola passed away at age 79.