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Czortkow became of Poland in 1918 16 years before Lola was born
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Hitler and the Nazi party are telling the world that Jews are a disease race
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Lola was born
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A German officer is killed in Paris by a Jew sets off a Black slash known of Brocken Glass
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six million Jews of nine million who lived in Europe died during WWll 1 1/2 million were Jewish children Adults had 33% chanse of surviving and children only had 10 % chance
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Czortcow 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 overhead
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Hitler invades Poland 3.3 Jew live
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Lola is free to walk around the market place with her mother The Russian soldiars
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The Russians take over Czortkow
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Hitler comes up with a plan to execute all of Europes Jews its called the final soulution
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The Germans made a law that anyone providing shelter to Jews giving them food or even selling them food was to be killed
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it was a Sunday and the Germans arrived in town marching with guns and tanks wearing goggles tall black boots and leather jackets
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Lola is and a half and is going to nursery school at her fathers cousins house there are about a dozen other kids
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The Jews in Czortkow are confined to a ghetto a series of streets are building where Jews must have proper papers to leave the ghetto
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Japans Bombs pearl harbor in Hawaii bringing the Amaricans into war
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Lola's dad dies at home
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The first action comes for Germans it means day set aside for rounding up huge numbers of Jews and sending them by train to the concentration camps Lola her mothers and her Grand mothers 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 Lolas mother a cousin and 2 other enacting revenge for another German soldiars giong into his territory and shooting his jews
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A few months after Lolas mother is killed Bacia takes Lola aside right before bed expaining she will be sneaking out of the ghetto that night Bacia does not go with Lola Tekla picks 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 happens and the town Czortcow was liquidated and all the Jews were killed including Bacia
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June final action happens and the town of Czortkow was liqudated and all Jews were killed including 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 is and the dog never barks Lola pretends to be a deaf mute the son in law says that the next day he is takes lola in the middle of the night to Anna where she puts into 6 1/2 6 1/2 foot hole with three other jews
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Just after the new year of 1944 Anna tells Lolaand the others that the Germans are losing the war and retreating
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Lola and the others hear fighting nearby they can hear the tanks rumbling and crack of gun fire To Lola this time it is a 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 9 months
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Russians control Czortkow 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 strangers house leaving her there Russian soldiers come and take her to Dysmalcow
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Lola has to beg for food a russian soldier offers to take her to the orphonige in Kiev
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The Russians soldier has to drop Lola off in the small town of Gritsev he explains to the mayor that he was taking Lola to the orphonige in Kiev but his plans have been changed and he has to now go back to where they came Seriga a man who happens to be at city hall offers to take her
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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 This is the day American thinks is the beginning of world war WWll
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Lola turns 10 years old while living with seriga she is sad and upset but but will not let anyone know obout dealing with big emotions over losing her family and bieng tossed from one place to another fellings of bieng unwanted Seriga has been writing letters to Czortkow to try to find the family of lola
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poles and Ukrainians are still killing Jews even through the war is over
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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Sergei finally gets into contact with Lolas uncle George He is living in lwow now He is one of Lolas mothers brothers Uncle George goes to Kiev to look for Lola not realizing she wasn't in the orphonage he goes without papers and is placed in jail where he gets really sick
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Germany surrendered known in Europe Day
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America drops two atomic bombs on japan
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Japan surrenders known as Victory over Japan Day
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Lola gets onto a train with a man named Romek heading to Krakow to be reunited with her uncle Gearge when she gets there she feels no emotian when reanited shes numb even though she knows it emotional moment
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Lola's Uncle asaac 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 Georges family and Uncle itch are moving from country to country trying to escape the persecution of Jews
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Lola finds herself in Eschwege Germany in a displaced persons 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 finally 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 steats high school but drops out to work full time because she tkes care of herself not asking her aunt or uncle for anything
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Lola is a teenager but still feels like a child Bieng able to walk is the only thing she knows for sure
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Lola graduates at 16 with her comptometer operater 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 husband He is 11 Years older and from Poland as well
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Lola and walter get married Lola returns to school and earns her highschool diploma
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Lola and Walter get married Lola returns to school and earns her highschool diploma
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Lola is 28 years old and has been living in Amarica 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 mothers murderer was held accountable in a German court for his wrong diongs
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Lola gives birth to a third child Jeffery Scott he is named after Lolas parental grandfather oldest uncle
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50 years of silence was Brcken when Jane Marks asked Lola for an Interview for a book on hidden children Jane unlocks not Just Lolas words but her emotions
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Jane Marks book on hidden children during wwll was published
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Anna Aksenczuk the non Jew who hid Lola in the hole was officially recognized as on of the righteous at the Righteous Among the Nations in Israel
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Lola receives a letter from the United States Hilocaust Memorial Musiam in Washington DC looking for artifacts that survived the war Lola donates the dress she wore for 9 months
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Lola's dress travels to different states and cities Lola travels with it Sara Bloomfield Sara gets Lola to publicly speak about the events of WWll and the dress
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Lola writes and publishes the hidden girl a true story of the Holocoust
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Lola passed away at age 79