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Hitler and the Nazis party are telling everyone around the world that "Jews are a diseased race"
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Lola was born
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A German officer is killed in Paris causing the night of the broken glass
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Though Europe is still at peace, Czortlow starts having nighty blackouts lights turned off and jew tape black tape over the window so German bombers don't see them while flying overhead
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Hitler invades Poland where 3.3 million Jews lived.
England and France also declared war on Germany
beginning of World war II -
Lola is free to walk around the marketplace with her mother. The Russians soldiers arrive
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the day the Russians took over the town
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Hitler comes up with a plan to execute all of Europe's Jews. it is called the final solution
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Lola is six and a half and is going to primary school at her fathers cousins house there was about a dozen kids
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it was a Sunday, the German soldier arrived in tall black boots black jackets and hat with guns
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the Germans made a law that any providing shelter, giving food, or selling food to the Jews will be killed
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america was not part of the world war II until pearl harbour was bombed by Japanese
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the Jews are confines to a ghetto with buildings and must have proper papers to leave
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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 numbers of Jews and sending them by train to the concentration camps
Lola, her mother, and her grandmother all hide inside of a wall to hide from the Germans -
Today is Purim, a Jewish holiday Lola's mother gets shot and dies 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 mothers death, Babcia her grandmother is aside Lola's right before bed explaining she sneaking out of the ghetto that night. Babcia does not go with lola instead 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 and Lola is scared and afraid of him because he doesn't want her there.
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A final "action happended in the town of czortkov and the whole town was liquidated and all Jews were killed including babcia
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A couple of months after Lola got to the house a man and a woman come in while Lola was in the living room. Lola acted fast and pointed to her mouth and ears, Tekla took a hint and said she was deaf and mute and the son in law threatens to take her to the gestapo and Tekla in the middle of the night took her to her sisters house. Ana the sister places her into a 6 by 6 hole with 3 other Jews
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Just after the new year Anna tells Lola and the others that German is losing the war and starting to retreat.
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Lola and the others hear fighting nearby they can hear the tanks and the crack of gunfire it used to be a horrible scary sound now it is a good sound
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Anna comes in and tells them they have been "liberated" before sunrise the next day Lola and the others climb out of the hole they have been in for 9 months
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Russian controlled Czortkov which was officially liberated on March 23, 1944.
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Germans come to the Czortkov trying to reclaim the territory that was once there's. Lola had to leave Czortkov cause rose refused to take her back to the farm house.
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Lola is about 9 and a half years old Lola has been walking for a while until she passes out, she is found by a man who knew her dad, that man took her to a house then she stayed there until Russians came and took her.
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Lola had to go door to door to beg for food, she sits on the steps until a Russian solider offers to bring her to an orphanage in Kiev.
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the Russian soldier has to drop Lola off in a small town named griztiv due to fighting over where she was originally supposed to go. at the place the soldier explained that Lola was supposed to go to the orphanage but cannot. a man offers to take her in so she does.
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Sergei finally finds one of Lola's relatives and contacts him, the relative can not come and pick her up. as he has tried to but sent to jail and then he bailed himself out. but while in jail uncle George gets sick.
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d-day is when Americans teamed with the British and started pushing the beaches. on this day we lost many brave soldier but that started pushing Germany back
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The Germans completely disappear from Czortkov
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Lola turns 10 years old while living with seregai (the guy who took her in) she dealing with big emotions of being tossed around not really loved. seregai started sending letters to Czortkov to try and find relatives
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrendered so this day is known as "victory in Europe."
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during this time it was early the Poles,and Ukrainians were still killing Jews even though the war was over.
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america drops 2 atomic bombs on japan
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victory over japan day. (japan surrendered)
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Lola got onto a train with a man that soon brought Lola to her uncle. once with her uncle Lola is so numb that she doesn't cry she feels as if she should though but once again she cant she has had it in her mind that she can only rely on herself
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Lola was in uncle Georges house uncle Issac shows up Lola liked where so lived until she moved cause of the tension between the Ukrainians and poles against Jews.
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Lola, Uncle George, Uncle Issac there moving from country from country trying to escape the prosecution Jews
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Lola finds herself in Eztwich is a displaced persons camp. she spends almost a year then she tries to go to Israel because she doesn't want to go to America
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Lola finally gets clearance for america uncle George and his family received clearance 1 year ago but why stayed with Lola
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Lola starts high school but drops out to work full time because she takes care of herself. She doesn't ask her aunt and uncle for anything.
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Lola is a teenager but still feels like a child. the only thing she knows for sure is that she can walk. This is all stemming from her trauma in WWII.
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Lola graduates at 16 with her computer operator certificate. she starts working at Saks 34th streets during the day and starts high school during the night but yet again she drops out
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Lola and Walter get married and Lola goes to school and gets her high school diploma
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Lola goes to Brighton Beach were she ends up meeting her husband he is 11 years older than him and from Poland.
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Lola is 21 and worked until the birth of her first child, Deborah Renee. she was named after her mother Dwoja and after Walters mother Rachel, the live in one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn.
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Lola second child is born, Michael Jay. he is named after Walters father and Lola's father. Walter has gone to school to design patterns on clothes and then they move into the suburbs of long island
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Lola is 28 years old and has been living America for 13 years. she opens the New York post and an article with the head line "NAZI OFFICER GETS LIFE FOR 9 MURDERS. that means her mothers murderer was held in court and sentenced life her mother and many other killing
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Lola gives birth to her third child Jeffery scott, he is named after Lolas paternal grandfather and oldest uncle
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50 years of silence was broken on this day when Jane mark asked Lola for an interview for a book on hidden children, Jane unlocks not just Lola word but her emotions too.
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Jane marks book on hidden children during WWII is published, Lola's story has been told for the first time.
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Anna aberzock the non jew who hid Lola is in a hole is known as one of the righteous people,
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Lola receives a letter from the Holocaust memorial museum asking for any artifacts. Lola donates her dress she wore for 9 months in the hole.
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Lola dress travels to different states and cities. Lola travels with it and Sara Bloomfield where Sara gets Lola to speak about the events she went through and what happened in the dress
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Lola rein Kahuam. she writes a story about the Holocaust and her story
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Lola passed away at the age of 79