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czortkow in apart of poland
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Hitler told everyone at his party "Jews are are a dieseased race"
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Lola is born
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A German officer was killed in Paris by a Jew. set off a backlash. now known as the night of broken glass
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Czortkow starts having blackouts all streetlights turned off. Jews put black paper over there windows so German bombers cant see them.
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6,000,000 out of 9,000,000 Jews died during ww2
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Hitler invades Poland, where 3.3 million Jews.
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Lola is free to walk around the market place with her mother.the Russian soldiers arrive
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The Russians take over Czortkow
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Hitler comes up with a plan, which is to execute all Jews. this is called 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 are about a dozen other kid there.
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It was a Sunday, the Germans arrived in town marching with guns, and tanks, wearing goggles, tall black boots, and leather jackets.
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the Germans produced a law stating that if anyone provides anything to Jews they will be executed.
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Japan bombs pearl harbor
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Japan bombs pearl harbor
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Walter was 19, him and his brothers were hiding from the poles
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The Jews in Czortkow are confined to a ghetto, a series of streets and buildings where all Jews must live. You must have papers to leave.
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Lola and Walter get married
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Lola's dad dies at home
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The first "action" come. for Germans, it means by 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 two 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 afetr Lola's mother is killed, babcia takes Lola aside right before bed, explaining she will be sneaking out of the ghetto tonight babcia does not go with her.
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teklas son in law works in the fields even tho it is still windy and cold. Lola is always scared of him.
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the 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 goes to a house a man and a women came to the room where Lola was the dog never barks Lola pretends to be deaf.
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after the new year of 1944 anna tells Lola and others that the others that germans are losing the war
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They hear fighting nearby, Lola this time was wonderful sound.
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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.
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Russians control czortkow which was officially liberated on March 23 1944
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Germans return to czortkow.
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Lola is 9 1/2 was found passed out on the ground when walking from Czortkow.
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Lola spent days in a government building
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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 to the orphanage in keiv but his plans have been changed and he has to now go back to where they came. Sergei a man who happened to be at city hall offers to Lola.
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The Germans completely disappear from Czortkow.
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American and British land on beaches of france
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Lola turns 10 years old living with Sergei. she is sad and upset but will not let anyone know. She is dealing with big emotions.
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Lola and sergei get in contact with lolas uncle.
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aldolf Hitler commits suicide on april 30 1945
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Germany surrendered
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america drops two atomic bombs on japan
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Vj day victory over japan
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Lola gets on a train with a man named romek heading to Krakow to be reunited with her unc George.
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Lola uncle George and his family Uncle itch moving country to country
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Lola is in a displaced persons camp run by the united nation
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Victory in Europe day aka ve day
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Lola gets permission to go to america
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Lola starts high school but drops out to work
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Lola is 15 a teenager but she still feels like a child
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Lola graduates
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Lola is 21 pregnant with with her first child
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lolas second child is born
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NAZI OFFICER GETS LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDERING JEWS
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third child is born
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50 years of silence was broken Lola spoke out about ww2
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Jane marks book was published in 1993
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Anna was recognized
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Lola gets a letter from holocaust museum
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lolas dress travels to different states.
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Lola writes and publishes the hidden girl
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Lola passed away at 79