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1930's
Hitler and the Nazi party are telling the world "Jews are a diseased race." -
October 4, 1934
Lola was born -
November 9, 1938
A German officer is killed in Paris by a by a Jew. Sets off a backlash as the Night of Broken Glass. -
Summer of 1939
Czortkow starts having rolling blackouts. All the streetlights are turned off, and Jewstape tape black paper over their windows -
Europe 1939
Six million Jews died during WWII, and 1 1/2 million were Jewish children. -
September 1, 1939
Hitler invades Poland -
September 1939
Lola is free to walk around the market place with her mother -
September 17, 1939
Russians take over the town -
1941
Hitler comes up with a plan to execute all the Jews. The Final Solution. -
Spring 1941
Lola is six and a half and nd is going to nursery school. There are about a dozen kids. -
July 6, 1941
The Germans arived in town marching with guns and other things. -
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 7, 1941
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor bringing America in the war. -
April 1942
The Jews are confined in the ghetto unless it they of papers. -
Summer 1942
Lola's dad dies at home -
August 26-27 1942
The "fist action happens." When the Germans come they hide inside their walls. -
March 21, 1943
It's Purim a Jewish holiday. Lola's mom and 2 others are killed by a German officer -
May 1943
A few months after Lola's mom died. BAbica tells Lola she will be sneaking out. Then a girl Tekla picks her up. -
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. -
June 1943
There was the final "action" and the ghetto was "liquidated." -
Summer 1943
A couple of months after Lola got to the house, a man and a woman came to the room where Lola was. The dog never barks. Lola pretends to be a mute. The son-in-law says that the next day he is taking Lola to the Gestapo. So Tekla takes Lola to Anna. -
January 1944
Just after the new year of 1944, Anna tells Lola and the others that the Germans lost and are retreating -
March 1944
Lola and the others hear fighting nearby. They can hear tanks rumbling and the crack of gun fire. -
A morning in March 1944
Anna comes and tells them they have been "liberated" by the Russians. Before sunrise Lola and the others crawl out of the hole they were in for 9 months. -
March 23, 1944
The Russians control Gestapo now, which was finally liberated. -
March 25-26, 1944
Germans come back to Czortkow trying to reclaim their land and Lola has to leave. -
April 4, 1944
Lola is 9 1/2 years old and was found passed out. A man who knew her father brought her to a stranger's house. Then a Russian soldier takes her -
April 10, 1944
Lola has to beg for food and a Russian soldier offers her to take her to an orphanage in Keiv. -
April 12, 1944
The Russian soldier drops off Lola in Gritsev because he has to go. Then a man named Sergei offers to take Lola -
Summer 1944
Germans disappear from Czortkow -
D-Day June 6, 1944
American and British soldiers landed on beaches of Normandy, France, and began to push the Germans westward while the Russians are pushing eastward. -
October 4th, 1944
Lola turns 10 years old in Sergei's house and is depressed. Sergei is trying to find Lola's family. -
April 12, 1945
SErgei gets contact with Lola's uncle. He goes to look for Lola in Keiv not relising she's not in the orphanage. When he goes he doesn't go with papers and is placed in jail where he got sick -
April 30, 1945
Adolf Hitler commits 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 August 1945
America drops two atomic bombs in Japan. -
V-J Day August 14, 1945
Japan surrenders -
September 1945
Lola is going on a train with Romec to go to Krakow to go live with her Uncle George and is emotionless when she meets him. -
Late Summer 1946
Lola's Uncle Isaac shows up at Uncle George's house in Krakow. However, they don't stay for long and end up leaving. -
Fall 1946
Lola and others are moving from country to country trying to escape persecution of Jews. -
December 1946 - January 1947
Lola finds herself in Eschwege, Germany in a displaced camp run by the United Nations. Lives there for a year and tries to go to Israel. -
July 7, 1949
Lola finally gets clearance to travel to America. Uncle George and his family received clearance a year before but waited for Lola. -
September 1949
Lola starts high school but drops out to work full-time. -
September 1950
Lola graduates at 16 with her comptometer operator certificate. She starts working at Saks 34th Street during the day and goes to school at night but, again drops out. -
October 1951
Lola goes to Brighton beach where she finds her husband. He is 11 years older than her and from Poland. -
April 1952
Lola and Walter get married. Lola goes back to school and gets her diploma. -
1955
Lola is 21 and worked until the birth of her first child, Deborah Renee. She was named after her mother Dworja and after Walter's mother Rachel. They live in a one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. -
1958
Lola's second child is born, Michel Jay. He is named after WAlter's father and Lola's. Walter is a fashion designer. They move to the suburbs. -
June 26, 1962
Lola is 28 years old, has been living in Amercia fo 13 years. She opens the New York Post and sees the German officer who killed her mom and got life in prison -
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 1991
50 years of silence is broken when Jane Marks asks Lola for an interview for a book. Jane unlocks her emotions -
1993
Jane Marks's book has been published. -
November 21, 1994
Anna Aksenczuk, the non-jew who hid Lola in the hole was officially recognized. -
2001
Lola gets a letter from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. -
2002
Lola's dress travels to lots of places. Lola travels with Sara and Lola talks about WWII