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1930's
Hitler and the Nazi party are telling the world that "Jews are a diseased race." -
october 4, 1934
Lola was born. -
November 9 1938
A German officer is killed in Paris by a Jew. This sets off a backlash known as the Night of Broken Glass -
Summer 1939
Czorlkow starts having rolling blackouts. All the streetlights are turned off, and Jews tape black paper over the window so German bombers can not see them when flying overhead. -
Eroupe 1939
Six million Jews died during WWWll, 1 1/2 million were Jewish children adults had a 33% chance of surviving children only 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
The Russians take over the town. -
1941
Hitler comes up with a plan to execute all of Europe's Jews. Its called the Final Solution. -
Spring 1941
Lola is six and a half and is going to nursey school to her father cousins house. There are about a dozen other kids there to. -
July 6, 1941
It was a Sunday, the Germans arrive to the 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 in Hawaii, bringing the Americans into the war. -
April 1942
The Jews in Czorlkow were confirmed to a ghetto, a series, of streets and buildings where Jews must live. You must have proper papers to leave the ghetto. -
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 go with Lola. -
Summer 1942
Lola's dad dies at home. -
August 26-27 1942
The first action comes for Gemans it means a day set aside for rounding up huge numbers of Jews and sending them by train to the concentration camps Lola her mother, and her grandmother, are hidden between a storage area and an aparpment next door. -
March 21, 1943
Purim is a Jewish holiday. Lola and her 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". -
Spring 1943
Tecla's son-in-law woke in the field despite still being windy and cold. Lola is always scared of him. -
June 15 ,1943
Lola found out that Baschia had died in the final "action" and had been dead since I was back in Tekla's farmhouse. -
Summer 1943
A couple of months after Lola is hot to the house. a man and a woman come into the room where Lola is. The dog never barks. Lola pretends to be a deaf-mute. The son-in-law says that the next day he is taking Lola to the ghetto. It takes Lola in the middle of the night to an Area where she is put in a 6 x x6x12 foot hole with 3 other Jews. -
January 1944
Just after the 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 the fighting nearby. They can hear the tanks rumbling, and the crack of gunshots. To Lola, this time it is a wonder sound. -
A Morning in March 1944
Anna tells them they have been "liberated" by the Russians. Before sunrise Lola and the others crawl out the hole they were in for 9 months. -
March 23, 1944
The Russians control the town which was officially liberated on. Lola was by the building where her mother was shot. -
April 4, 1944
Rose kicks Lola out and takes her to follow the crowd out of Czortov. Lola is 9 1/2 years old and was found passed out on the ground when walking from Czortkov. A man who knew her father finds her and brings her to a stranger's house and leaves her there. -
April 10, 1944
Lola has to beg for food. A Russian soldier offers to take her to the 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 go back from where they came now. Sergei a man who happened to be at city hall, offers to take Lola. -
Summer 1944
Lola has discovered that the Germans have completely disappeared Then Rose decides to escape the Germans by returning to Anna's farmhouse and doesn't tell Lola. -
D-Day June 6, 1944
Americans and Britain landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, and began to push the Germans westward while the Russians were pushing them eastward. This is the day Americans think the begging of the end of WWll -
October 4, 1944
Lola turns 10 years old while living with Sergei. She is sad and upset but will not let anyone know she is dealing with big emotions over losing her family and being tossed from one place to another feelings of being unwanted sergei has been writing letters to Czorlkov to try and find a family of Lola's. -
November 21, 1944
Anna Alsecuk the non-Jewish who hid Lola in the hole was officially recognized as one of the "righteous" at the "The Righteous amount the nation in Israel. -
April 12, 1945
Sergi finally gets into contact with lolas uncle George who is living in L. Wow now he is one of Lola's mother's brothers uncle George goes to Keiv to look for Lola not realizing she isn't in the orphanage he goes without paper and is placed in jail where he gets sick. -
April 30, 1945
Adolf Hitler committed suicide. -
V-E Day May 7, 1945
Germany surrendered known as "Victory in Europe Day" -
Summer 1945
Poles and Ukrainians are still killing Jews even though the war is over -
Early Agust 1945
American drops two atomic bombs on Japan -
Agust 14, 1945
Japan surrenders -
Semtember 1945
Lola gets onto a train with a man named Romek heading to Krakow to be reunited with her Uncle George. When she gets there she feels no emotions when reunited she is numb even though she knows it is an emotional moment. -
Late Summer 1946
Lola's uncle Issac shows up at uncle Georges's house lola likes Krakow however they don't stay long and end up leaving because the tensions between Poles and Jews have not gone away. -
Fall 1946
Lola's uncle George uncle forge family and uncle itch are moving from country to country trying to escape from the persecution of Jews. -
December 1946- Janurary 1947
Lola finds herself in Eschwege Germany in a displaced person camp run by the United Nations. She spends over a year there. : Lola tries to go to Isreal because she doesn't want to go to America -
July 7, 1949
Lola finally gets clearance to travel to America. Uncle George and his family received clearance the year prior but waited for Lola. -
September 1949
Lola starts high school but drops out to work full time because she takes care of herself not asking her aunt or uncle for anything. -
September 1950
Lola graduates at 16 with her comptometer operator certificate she starts working at Sakes 34th Street during the day she goes to high school at night, but 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 is 21 and worked until the birth of her first child, Deborah Rense. She was named after her mother Dworji and after Walter's mother Rachel. They live in a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. -
1958
Lola's second child is born Micheal jay he is named after Walters's father and Lola's father Walter has gone to school to design and create patterns for coats and suits. They move to suburbs in Long island -
June 26, 1962
Lola is 28 years old and has been living in America for 13 years. She opened the New York Post and see a scanned article with the headline NAZI OFFICER GETS IN ( MURDERS, Kurt Koilner was found guilty of killing Jews in Czorkow in the years 1942-1943. Her mother's murderer was held accountable in a German court for his wrongdoings. -
1966
Lola gives birth to her third child Jeffrey Scott he is named after Lola's paternal grandfather and her oldest uncle. -
Memorial Day Weekend 1981
50 years of silence was broken jane Marks aks Lola for an interview for a book on hidden children. Jane unlocks not just Lola's words but her emotions too. -
1993
Jane Marks's Book on hidden children during WWll is published. -
2001
Lola receives a letter from the United States holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C looking for artifacts that survived the war. Lola donates the dress she has worn for 9 months. -
2002
Lolas Dress travels to different states and cities Lola travels with it and Sara Bloomfield where Sara gets to speak about the events of WWLl and the dress