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Hitler and the nazi party are telling Germany that "Jews are a diseased race"
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Lola was born
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A German officer was killed by a jew. This sets off a backlash called 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't see them when flying overhead
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Six Million Jews died during WWII, 1 1/2 million of those Jews were children. Adults had a 33% chance While children had a 10% chance
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Hitler invades Poland where 3.3 Million Jews are living
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Lola is free to walk around in the Marketplace with her mother
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The Russians take over the town
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The rest of the world doesn't know that Hitler had a plan to kill all Jews called "The Final Solution"
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Lola is six and a half years old and is going to nursery school at her father's cousins's house. About a dozen other kids are going to the house
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Germans invade Czortkow and take it from the Russians with Soldiers and tanks on a Sunday
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The Germans made a law that says that sheltering and giving Jews food and clothes is punishable by death
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor in Hawaii bringing the Americans into WWII
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All the Jews in Czortkow are confined to a Ghetto. You can't leave without the proper paperwork.
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Lolas' father dies at home
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The first action comes, For Germans it means a day for collecting a large amount of Jews and sending them on trains to concentration camps. Lola, her mother, and grandmother hide in a narrow space between an apartment and a storage room.
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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 enacting revenge on another soldier going into his territory and shooting his Jews.
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A few months after Lolas' mother was shot, Babcia takes Lola aside and tells her that she is sneaking out alone without her. Then a woman comes for her, her name is Tekla.
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Teklas' son-in-laws work in the fields. Tekla warns if she hears the dog bark, go under her bed
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Lolas' grandmother dies from the last "action" with the rest of the Jews in Czortkow.
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Lola sits in the living room because the dog never barked. A couple walks in. Noticing them, Lola pretends to be a deaf-mute and the couple leaves her alone. One of the son-in-laws says that he is taking her to the gestapo tomorrow. Later that night, Tekla takes her to her sister, Anna. Anna stuffs her in a 6.5 by 6.5 FT hole with three other Jews
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Anna tells Lola and the others that Hitler is losing the war and Russia is taking back their territory.
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Lola and the others hear fighting nearby and Tekla tells them that the russians are winning.
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Lola and the others crawl out of the hole after hearing Tekla saying that we were "liberated" from the Germans
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Russians liberated Czortkow from the Germans.
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Lola hears other people spread rumors that the Germans are coming back. The Germans eventually Come back for a few days
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Lola follows a Crowd because she got kicked out by Rose. Lola is only 9 and a half years old. She eventually gets put on the back of a man who knew her father. He drops her off at a house with Russian soldiers. They eventually dropped her off at an orphanage in Dzymalow.
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The Germans completely disappeared from the town after a few several days
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The Americans Ally with the British, Russians, and the Australians
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Hitler committed Suicide, a week later, The Germans surrender. This is now known as "V-E Day".
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Poles and Ukrainians are still killing Jews even though the War is over
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America bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki with "Fat Man" and "Little Boy". They then surrender a few weeks later.
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Today is now known as "V-J Day".
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Lola gets on a train with a man named Romek to Krakow to meet her Uncle George. She feels emotionally numb when she sees the family that she didn't know were still alive.
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Lola's Uncle Isaac shows up at Uncle George's house. They don't stay long because of the tension between the Poles and the Jews didn't go away even after a year after the war ending.
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Lola and her family were crossing borders illegally to escape the prosecution of Jews.
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Lola finds herself in Eschwege, Germany in a DP camp. Lola wants to go to Israel instead of America. Uncle George doesn't want her to be on her own because he still sees her as a child.
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Lola starts High school but drops out to work full-time because she takes care of herself and not asking her aunt and uncle for anything
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Lola finally gets Clearance to travel to America. Uncle George and his family waited because they got theirs the year prior.
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Lola graduated at 16 with her Comptometer operator certificate. She starts working at Saks 34th Street working during the day and doing school at night.
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Lola goes to Brighton Beach where she finds her husband. He is 11 years older than her but he is from Poland.
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Lola and Walter get married. Lola eventually goes back to school to gets her high school Diploma
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Lola is 21 and works until the birth of her first child, Deborah Renee. She was named after her mother Dworja and after Walters' mother Rachel. They live in a small one-room apartment.
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Lola's second child, Micheal Jay. He is named after Lola's and Walter's Fathers. Walter went to Design school for coats and suit patterns. They moved to the suburbs in Long Island
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Lola gives birth to her third child, Jeffery Scott. He is named after Lola's paternal grandfather and her oldest uncle
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Anna Aksenczuk, the non-Jew who hid Lola in the hole, was officially recognized as one of the "righteous" with her son, Bohdan, and her husband.
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Lola received a letter from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. looking for artifacts that survived the war. Lola donates her dress that she wore for 9 months.
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Lola's dress travels to different states and cities. Lola travels with it and Sara Bloomfield where Sara gets Lola to speak publicly about the events of WWII and the dress
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Lola meets the heavenly father at 79. She died peacfully