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czortkow became part of Poland in 1918, 16 years
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Hitler and the Nazi party are telling the world that the Jews are a diseased race.
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Lola was born
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A German officer is killed by a Jew.sets off a blacklash known as the night of broken glass
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Czortkoz starts having rolling black outs.All the street lights are turned off,and Jews tape black paper over the windows so German bomers cant see them when flying overhead
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6 million Jews of the 9 million who lived in Europe
died in Europe died in world war 2 adults had a 33% of living while chilledren had a 10 % chance to live -
Hitler invades Poland,where 3.3 million Jews live.
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Lola is free to walk around the market with her mother .Russain soilders arrive.
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The Russians take over czortkow
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Hitler comes up with a plan to execute all the the Jews in europe.Its call the final solution
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Lola is 6 1/2 years old and is going to nursery school at her fathers cousins house.There is about a dozen other kids there too
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it was a Sunday,the Germans arrived in town, marching with guns and tanks.Wearing tall black boots and black leather jackets
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Germans made a law that anyone providing shelter food and or water for Jews must be killed
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Japan bombs pear harbor in hawaii, bringing the Americans to war
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The Jews in Czortkow are confined into a ghetto,a series of apartments and bulidings where jews must live.you must have proper papers to leave the ghetto
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Lola's dad died at home.
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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 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 women 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 is killed, Babcia takes Lola aside right before bed and Babcia said she will be sneaking out of the ghetto and we be going with Tekla
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Teklas son in law works in the fields and even though its still cold and windy.Lola is always scared of him
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A final ''action'' happened and the town cortzkow was liquidated and all the Jews were killed even Babcia
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A couple of months after Lola arrived at the house, a man and 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 going to take her 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 hole with 3 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 the are retreating
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Lola and the others hear fighting nearby the tanks rumbling and the crack of gunfire.To Lola its a wonderful sound.
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Anna comes and tells them that they have be librated
by the Russians,before sunrise,Lola and the others crawl out of the hole they were in the hole for 9 months -
Russians control czortkow which was officially liberated on March 23 1944
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Germans return to Czortkow trying to reclaim territory.
Lola had to leave Crortkow because rose did take her back to the farm house -
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 Russain soilder takes Lola to a orphanage in keiv
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The Russain soilder has to drop Lola off in a small town of of Gritsev. He explains to the mayor that he was taking Lola to the orphanage in Keiv but his plans have been changed and he has to now go back to there they came. Sergei, a man who happened to be at city hall, offers to take Lola.
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Germans completely disappear form Czortkow.
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Americans 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 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 to find the family of Lola.
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Sergei finally gets in 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 ge gets really sick.
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Adolf Hitler committed suicide
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German surrendered this day known as the vitory in Europe
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poles and ukrannienes are still killing Jews even thought the war is over
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Americas drops 2 atomic bombs on Japan
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Japan surrenders. Known as vitory over Japan
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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 now 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 Georges family and uncle Itch are moving from the 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 gets clernce to America
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Lola start at Stewart park high school in manhattan
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Lola is a teenager but still feels like a child
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Lola graduated at 16 with her comptometer operator certificate. She starts working at Saks Fifth Avenue on 34th Street during the day and attends high school at night, but again drops out.
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Lola goes to Brighton beach where she meets her huzz he is 11 years older than her and is from Poland as well
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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 she was pregnant with her first child and she named the baby Deborha renne
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Lola's second child is born michal Jay he's and after her waler father and Lola father
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Lola is 28 years old and has been living in America for 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 of killing Jews in Czortkow in the years 1942-1943. Her mother's murderer was held accountable in a German court for his wrongdoings.
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Lola gives birth to her third child Jeffrey scott
named after Lola grandfather -
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's Marks book on world war 2 was published
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Anna Aksenczuk who hid Lola in the hole
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Lola gets a letter from a Holocaust museum in D.C
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the dress was put on display at d.c
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Lola writes and publishes the hidden girl
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Lola passed away at the age of 79