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1930's
Hitler and the Nazi party are telling the world that jews are a diseased race. -
October 4
Lola was born. -
November 9
A German officer is killed in Paris by a Jew. Sets off a back lash known as The Night of Broken Glass. -
Summer 1939
Croztkow start having blackouts. -
Europe 1939
6 million jews died during WWII 1 and a half million where children. -
September 1st, 1939
Hitler invades Poland where 3.3 million Jews live. -
September 1939
Lola is free to walk a round the market place with her mother The Russian soldiers arrive. -
September 17, 1939
The Russians take over the town. -
1941
Hitler comes up with a plan to massacre all of Europes Jews. -
Spring 1941
Lola is six and a half and is going to nursery school and her father's cousins house. There are about a dozen other kids. -
July 6, 1941
It was a Sunday, the Germans arrive in town marching with guns and tanks, wearing googles, tall black boots, and leather jackets. -
October 15, 1941
The Germans made a law that anyone providing shelter to Jews, giving them food, or even selling them food is to be killed. -
December 7th, 1941
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. -
April 1942
The Jews in Czortkow are confined to a ghetto, a series of streets and buildings. -
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 number 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. -
Spring 1943
Purim, is a Jewish holiday. Lola's mother, a cousin, and two other women were killed by a German soldier enacting 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 the ghetto that night. -
Late Spring 1943
Tekla's son-in-law works in the fields even though it is still windy and cold. Lola was always scared of him. -
The Last "action"
The last action happened, and Babcia was killed. -
Summer 1943
a couple of months after Lola got to the house, a man and a woman came into Lola's room. To survive she hides her accent by pretending to be a deaf-mute. The next day Tekla takes her to Anna where she is put in a six by six-foot hole with 3 others. -
January 1944
Just after the new year, 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 the tanks rumbling and the crack of gunfire, to Lola this is a wonderful sound. -
a morning in March
A morning in March, anna tells Lola and them that they are Liberated by the Russians. They finally leave the hole they have been in for nine months. -
official liberation of Czortkow
The Germans are gone for now. The Russians have liberated the Jews. -
The Germans Come Back
The germans are determined to get the territory back that the russians took -
April 4 1944
Rose kicks out Lola out and makes her follow the crowd out of Czortkow. Lola is 9 and a half. -
April 10, 1944
Lola has to beg for food just to live. -
April 12th, 1944
A Russian soldier has to drop Lola off in a small town of Grisev. He explains to the mayor tht he was taking Lola to the Orphanage in Kev but his plans have been changed and he has to go back from where he came. Sergi, a man at city hall offers to take Lola. -
summer 1944
the germans are fully gone -
D-Day June 6th 1944
American and British soldiers land on the beaches of Normady, France and begin to push the germans westward, while the Russians are pushing them eastward. -
Lola's 10th Birthday
Lola turns 10 in Sergie's house. -
April 30 1945
hitler commits suicide -
V-E Day
Germany surrenders, known as Victory in Europe day -
Summer 1945
Poles and Ukrainians are still killing jews. -
Early August 1945
America drops 2 atomic bombs on japan. -
August 14 1945
Japan surrenders -
September 1945
Lola is reunited with her Uncle in Krakow, though she knows it is an emotional moment she has no feelings towards it -
Late Summer 1946
Uncle Isaac shows up in Krakow not long after they pack up and move Lola liked Krakow. -
Fall 1946
Lola, Uncle George, Uncle Georges family, and Uncle Itch are moving from country to country, trying to escape prosucution -
December 1946- Jan 1947
Lola finds herself in a displaced persons camp run by the UN. Lola tries to go to Isreal because she doesn't want to go to America. -
October 1951
Lola goes to Brighten Beach where she meets her husband.
He is 11 years older and from poland too. -
July 7 1949
Lola gets clearance to travel to America. Uncle George and his family got clearance the year prior but they waited for Lola. -
September 1949
Lola starts and drops out of highschool so she can work full time. -
September 1950
Lola graduates at 16 with her comptimeter operator certificate. She starts working at Saks 34th Street. She starts and again drops out of night school. -
October 1951
Lola goes to brighton beach where she meets her future husband. he is 11 years older and also from poland -
April 1952
Lola and walter get married. Lola goes back to school and gets her high school diploma -
April 1952
Lola and Walter get married. Lola goes back to school and gets her high school diploma. -
1955
Lola is 21 and worked till the birth of her first baby. Deborah Renee. She was named after both of their parents. They are liv ing in a one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn -
1958
Lolas second child is born. Micheal Jay in named after both of their dads. Walter goes to school to be a fashion designer. They moved to a nice house in the suburbs of long island -
June 26, 1962
Lola is 28 years old. The NYT posts an article about a German man, Kurt Kolner. He was sentenced to 9 life sentences for each of the 9 women he killed. including lolas mom. -
1966
Lola gives birth to her third Jeffery Scott named after her grand father and uncle who did not make it out of the war -
Memorial day weekend 1991
After 50 years she finally gets a interveiw for a book on hidden children. She finally cried. -
November 21st, 1994
Anna, the non-jew who saved lola is reconized as one of the "righteous" -
1993
Janes book on Lola is published. -
2001
Lola recieves a letter from the United states Holocaust museum asking for artifacts from the war. She gives them her dress -
2002
Lolas dress travels to different states and cities. where she publicly speaks about her experiances.
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