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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 is born
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A German officer is 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 streetlights are turned off, and Jews tape black paper over the windows so the German bombers can not see them flying overhead.
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6 million Jews died, 1 1/2 million were children. Adults had a 33% chance of surviving and children had 10%
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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 the town
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Hitler come's up with a plan to execute all of Europe's Jews. It's called the Final Solution
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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.
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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 made a law that anyone providing shelter to Jews, or giving them food, or even selling them food, is to be killed
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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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" 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
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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"
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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
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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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Czortkow has been "liquidated" and all of the Jews are dead
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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
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Just after new year of 1944, Anna tells Lola and 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 tanks rumbling and the crack of gunfire. 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 sundown sunrise Lola and the others crawl out of the hole they were in for 9 months.
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Czortkow has been libertated
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The Germans return for several days
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Rose kicks Lola out and makes her follow the crowd out of Czortkov. Lola is 9 1/2 years old
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Lola has to beg for food. A Russian soldier offers to take her to an 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 Keiv but his plans have been changed and he has to now go back from where they came. Segei takes Lola
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Germans completely disappear from Czortkow
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America, British, and Russia fought the Germans in Normandy, France
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Lola is living with Sergei and she is sad. Sergei tries to find the remaining family of Lola.
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Sergil finds Uncle George then he tries to find Lola eventually getting put in jail and getting sick
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrendered. Know as "Victory in Europe Day"
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Poles and Ukrainians are killing Jews after the war is ver
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America drops 2 atomic bombs on Japan
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Japan surrenders. Known as V-J Day.
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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.
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Lola, Uncle George, Uncle George's family, and Uncle Itich are moving from country to country trying to escape from the persecution of Jews
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Lola's Uncle Isaac shows up. they have to leave because the poles and Ukrainians keep killing Jews
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Lola is in a displacement camp in Germany. She tries to go to Isreal because she doesn't want to go to America
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Lola and her family get clearance to travel to America
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Lola drops out of high school to work full-time because takes care of herself
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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
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Lola goes to Brighton Beach where she meets her husband. He is 11 years older and from Poland too.
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Lola and Walter get married. Lola goes back to school and gets her high school diploma.
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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
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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
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Lola gets a newspaper that says that her mother's murderer is going to jail
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Lola gives birth to her third son, Jeffery Scott named after Lola's paternal grandfather and her oldest uncle
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Jane Marks asks Lola for an interview on hidden children. She unlocks her emotions
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Jane Mark's book was published
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Anna Aksenczuk gets recognized as one of the "righteous" at the 'righteous among the nations"
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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
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Lola and her dress go around the world. Sarah makes Lola speak about the stuff that happened to her.