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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 "Jew's 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 starts having rolling blackouts. All the street lights are turned off, and Jews tape black paper over the windows so German bombers can not see them when flying over head.
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Six million Jews, of the nine million who lived in Europe, died in WWII, 1 1/2 million were Jewish children. Adults had a 33% chance of surviving, and children 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 marketplace with her mother. The Russian soldiers arrive
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Russians take over Czortkow
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Hitler comes up with a plan to execute all of Europe's Jess. It is called the Final Solution.
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Lola is six and a half years old and is going to nursery school at her fathers cousen's house. There are about a dozen other kids there, too
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It was a Sunday, the Germans arrive in town marching with guns and tanks, 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 the food will be killed
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Lola goes to Brighton beach were she meets her husband. He is 11 years older and from Poland as well.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, bringing the Americans into the war
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Japan bombs Pearl harbor in Hawaii bringing the Americans to the ar
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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" come. For Germans, it means a days set aside for rounding up huge members of Jews and sending them by train to concentration camps. Lola, her mother, and her grandmother hide in a narrow space between a storage area wall and a wall of another apartment.
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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, Kurk 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 Bavcia takes her aside before bed, explaining she will be sneaking out of the Ghetto that night. Bavcia does not go with Lola. Tekla picks up Lola 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 Jew's were killed including Babcia
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A couple months after Lola got to the house, a man and a women came in to the room where Lola was. The dog never barks. Lola pretends to be deaf and mute. The son-in-law says they the next day, he is taking Lola to 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 the Gemans are losing the war and retreating
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Lola and the others hear fighting nearby. They can hear tanks rumbling and the crack of gunfire . To Lola, this time it is a wonderful sound.
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Anna comes to tell them they have been "liberated" by the Russians. Before the sunrise Lola and the others crawl out of the hole, they were in there for 9 months
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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 wouldn't take her back to the farm house
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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 to 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 in Keiv but his plans have been changed and he has to know go back to where they came. Sergei, a man who happened to be in city hall offered 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 tuns 10 years old while living with Sergei. She is sad and upset but will not let anyone know. She is having 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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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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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 mothers's brothers. Uncle George goes to Keiv to look for Lola, not realizing she is not in the orphanage. He goes without and is placed in jail, where he gets really sick.
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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 Japan.
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Japan surrendered. Known as "Victory over Japan Day".
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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 no emotion when reunited. She's numb Evan though she knows this is an emotional moment
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Lola's Uncle Isaac shows up at Uncle Georges 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 Ich are moving from country to county trying to escape the persecution of Jews.
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Lola finds herself in a displaced person camp in Eschwege, Germany 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 clearance to travel to America. Uncle George and his family received clearance the year prior but waited for Lola.
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Lola starts high school but drops out to work full time because she takes care of herself not asking her aunt and 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 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 drops out again.
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Lola and Walter get married. Lola returns to school and earns her high school diploma.
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Lola is 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 Brooklen.
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Lola's second child is born, Michael Jay. He is named after Wlter's father and Lola's father. Walter has gone to school to design and Crete patterns for coats and suits. they moved to the suburbs in long island
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Lola is 28 years old 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 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, Jefferey 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 memories too.
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Jane Mark's book on hidden children during WWII was published.
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Anna Aksenczuk, the non-Jew who hid Lola in the hole, was officially recognized as one of "The Righteous Among the Nations" in Israel.
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Lola receives a letter from the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., donated the dress she wore for nine months.
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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 rights and publishes The Hidden Girl: A True Story of the holocaust
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Lola passed away at age 79.