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1930's
Hitler and the Nazi party are telling the world that "Jew's are a diseased race." -
October 4, 1934
Lola is born -
November 1938
A German officer is killed in Paris by a Jew. Sets off a backlash known as the Night of Broken Glass -
Summer 1939
Czortkow starts having rolling blackouts. All the streetlights are turned off, and Jews tape black paper over the windows so the German bombers can not see them flying overhead. -
Europe 1939
6 million Jews died, 1 1/2 million were children. Adults had a 33% chance of surviving and children had 10% -
September 1, 1939
Hitler invades Poland where 3.3 million Jews live. -
September 1939
Lola is free to walk around the marketplace with her mother. The Russian soldiers arrive. -
September 17, 1939
Russians take over the town -
1941
Hitler come's up with a plan to execute all of Europe's Jews. It's called the Final Solution -
Spring 1941
Lola is six and a half and is going to nursery school at her father's cousin's house. There are about a dozen other kids there too. -
July 6, 1941
It was a Sunday, the Germans arrived in town marching with guns and tanks, wearing goggles, tall black boots, and leather jackets. -
October 15, 1941
The Germans made a law that anyone providing shelter to Jews, or giving them food, or even selling them food, is to be killed -
December 7, 1941
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor -
April 1942
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 -
Summer 1942
Lola's dad dies at home. -
August 26-27 1942
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 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 -
March 21, 1943
Purim, a Jewish holiday. Lola's mother, a cousin, and 2 other women were killed by a German solider, Kurt Kollner, revenge for another German soldier going into his territory and "shooting his Jews" -
May 1943
A few months after Lola's mother is killed, Babcia takes Lola aside right before bed, explaining she will be sneaking out of the ghetto that night. Babcia does not goe with Lola -
Spring 1943
Tekla's son-in-law works in the fields even though it is still windy and cold. Lola is always scared of him. -
Late June 1943
Czortkow has been "liquidated" and all of the Jews are dead -
Summer 1943
A couple months after Lola got to the house, a man and a woman came to a 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 taking Lola 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 -
January 1944
Just after new year of 1944, Anna tells Lola and the others that the Germans are losing the war and retreating -
March 1944
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 -
A Morning in March 1944
Anna comes and tells them they have been "liberated" by the Russians. Before sundown sunrise Lola and the others crawl out of the hole they were in for 9 months. -
March 23, 1944
Czortkow has been libertated -
March 1944
The Germans return for several days -
April 4, 1944
Rose kicks Lola out and makes her follow the crowd out of Czortkov. Lola is 9 1/2 years old -
April 10 1944
Lola has to beg for food. A Russian soldier offers to take her to an orphanage in Keiv -
April 12, 1944
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 Keiv but his plans have been changed and he has to now go back from where they came. Segei takes Lola -
Summer 1944
Germans completely disappear from Czortkow -
D-day June 6, 1944
America, British, and Russia fought the Germans in Normandy, France -
October 4, 1944
Lola is living with Sergei and she is sad. Sergei tries to find the remaining family of Lola. -
April 12, 1945
Sergil finds Uncle George then he tries to find Lola eventually getting put in jail and getting sick -
May 1, 1945
Adolf Hitler commits suicide -
V-E Day May 7, 1945
Germany surrendered. Know as "Victory in Europe Day" -
Summer 1945
Poles and Ukrainians are killing Jews after the war is ver -
Early August 1945
America drops 2 atomic bombs on Japan -
V-J Day August 14, 1945
Japan surrenders. Known as V-J Day. -
September 1945
Lola gets on a train with Romek going to Krakow to see Uncle George. When she meets with him, she has no emotions when meeting him. -
Fall 1946
Lola, Uncle George, Uncle George's family, and Uncle Itich are moving from country to country trying to escape from the persecution of Jews -
Late Summer 1946
Lola's Uncle Isaac shows up. they have to leave because the poles and Ukrainians keep killing Jews -
December 1946 - January 1947
Lola is in a displacement camp in Germany. She tries to go to Isreal because she doesn't want to go to America -
July 7, 1949
Lola and her family get clearance to travel to America -
September 1949
Lola drops out of high school to work full-time because takes care of herself -
september 1950
Lola graduates with her comptometer operator certificate. She works at Saks 34th Street during the day and high school by night where she again drops out -
October 1951
Lola goes to Brighton Beach where she meets her husband. He is 11 years older and from Poland too. -
April 1952
Lola and Walter get married. Lola goes back to school and gets her high school diploma. -
1955
Lola gets a child named Deborah Renee who is named after Lola's mother, Dworja, and Walter's mother, Rachel. there in a 1 bedroom apartment in Brooklyn -
1958
Lola has another child named Michael Jay, named after Walter's father and Lola's father. Walter goes to school to be a fashion designer. They now live in the Long Island suburbs -
June 26, 1962
Lola gets a newspaper that says that her mother's murderer is going to jail -
1966
Lola gives birth to her third son, Jeffery Scott named after Lola's paternal grandfather and her oldest uncle -
Memorial Day Weekend 1991
Jane Marks asks Lola for an interview on hidden children. She unlocks her emotions -
1993
Jane Mark's book was published -
November 21, 1994
Anna Aksenczuk gets recognized as one of the "righteous" at the 'righteous among the nations" -
2001
Lola received a letter from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum asking if she had some artifacts she wanted to donate. She donates the dress she had for 9 months -
2002
Lola and her dress go around the world. Sarah makes Lola speak about the stuff that happened to her.