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1930s
Hitler and the nazi party are telling the world "Jews are a diseased Race" -
October 4th, 1934
Lola was born -
October 15, 1941
Germans made a law that if anyone is sheltering Jews, giving or selling food will be executed. -
November 9th, 1938
A german officer is killed in Paris by a jew, setts off a backlash known as the night of the broken glass. -
Summer 1939
Czortcow starts having rolling blackouts. All the streetlights are turned off, and Jews tape black paper over the windows so German bombers can not see them when flying overhead. -
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.
Russian soldiers arrive. -
September 17, 1939
The russians take over the town. -
Europe 1939
Six million Jews died during WWll, and 1 1/2 million were Jewish children. Adults had a 33 percent chance of life and children had 10/ -
1941
Hitler comes up with a plan to execute all of Europe jews. Its called final solution. -
Spring 1941
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. -
July 6, 1941
It was a Sunday, the Germans arrived in town marching with guns and tanks, wearing goggles. tall black boots, and leather jackets. -
December 7th, 1941
Japan bombs pearl harbor in Hawaii. Which brings Americans into war. -
April 1942
The Jews are confined to a ghetto, a series or streets and buildings where Jews must live. You must have proper papers to leave ghettos. -
March 25-26, 1944
Germans come back to Czortkow trying to reclaim the territory. Lola had to leave Czortkow because Rose wouldn't take her back to the farmhouse. -
April 12, 1945
Sergei finally gets in contact with Uncle George and tries to go get her without papers. He realizes she isn't there and He then gets arrested and really sick. -
Summer 1942
Lola's dad dies at home. -
August 26-27
The first "action" comes, for Germans it means a day set aside for rounding up a 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. -
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. -
Spring March 21, 1943
Purim is a Jewish holiday. Lola's mother, a cousin, and 2 other women were killed by a German soldier enacting revenge for another German soldier going into his territory and "shooting his Jews". -
April 4th 1944
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. Russian soldiers come and take her. -
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. -
Late spring 1943
Teklas son-in-law works in the fields even tho it is still windy and cold. Lola was always scared of him. -
June 1943
A final "action" happened and the town of Czortkow was "liquidated" and all Jews were killed, including Babcia. -
Summer 1943
Lola faked being deaf and mute, the son then said he taking her to the Gestapo. Tekla then takes Lola in the middle of the night and is put in 6 1/2 by 6 1/2 hole with 3 others. This happened a few months after she got with Telka. -
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 tankes fighting and gunfire, to lola this was a wonderful sound. -
March 23, 1944
Russians control Czortkow which was officially liberated on march 23, 1944 -
March 25th 1944
Germans come back to Czortkow to take their territory. Rose wouldn't take her back to the farmhouse. -
April 10, 1944
Lola has to beg for food, a Russian soldier offers to take her to the orphanage is Kyiv. -
April 12, 1944
The Russian soldier drops Lola off in the small town of Gritsev. He explains to the mayor that he was taking Lola to the orphanage of Keiv but his plans have been changed and he now has to go back from where they came. Sergei, a man who happened to be at the city hall, offered to take lola. -
summer , 1944
Germans have gone completely missing. -
D-day June 6, 1944
American and British souldiers land on the beach of Normandy, France, and begin to push the Germans westward while the Russians are pushing them eastward. This is the day America thinks is the beginning of the end of WWII. -
October 4, 1944
Lola turns 10 years old. She is depressed and has been getting passed around. Experiencing being unwanted. Sergei has been trying to find Lola's family. -
April 4, 1945
Rose kicks Lola out and makes her follow the crowd out of Czortkov. Lola is nine and a half years old. -
April 30, 1945
Hitler commits suicide. -
V-E day May 7, 1945
Germany surrendered. Know as "victory in Europe Day". -
Summer 1945
Poles and Ukrainians are still killing Jews even though the war is over. -
Early Augest 1945
America drops two atomic bombs on Japan. -
August 14, 1945 VJ day
Japan surrenders. -
September 1945
Lola is eleven years old and gets on a train again. She is being taken by a man named Romek to go to Krakow. She is going to be reunited with her uncle. She is emotionally numb. -
Late summer 1946
Lolas Ucle Issac shows up at uncle Georges's house. Lola liked krakow, However, they don't stay long and end up leaving because of the tension between the poles and jews. -
December 1946-January 1947
Lola finds herself in Eschwege, Germany in a displaced persons camp run by the United Nations. She spends over a year there. Lola tries to go to Israel because she doesn't want to go to America. -
fall 1946
Lola, uncle George and his family, and Itch are moving from country to country to escape the persecution of Jews. -
July 7, 1949
Lola finally gets clearance to travel to America. Uncle George and his family were able to go but waited for Lola. -
September 1949
Drops out of high school to get a job without permission from her uncle. -
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 drops out again. -
October 1951
Lola goes to Brighton Beach where she meets her husband. He is 11 years older and from Poland to. -
April 1952
Lola and Walter get married. Lola goes back to school and gets her school diploma -
1955
Lola is 21 and worked until the birth of her first child, Deborah Renee. She was named after her mother Dworja and Walters's mother Rachel. they live in a one-bedroom house in Brooklyn. -
1958
Lola's second child is born, Michael Jay. He is named after Walters's father. Walter has gone to school to design clothes. They move to the suburbs in Long Island. -
June 26,1962
Lola is 28 years old and has been living in America for 13 years. She opens the New York Post and sees an article with the headline NAZI OFFICER GETS LIFE IN ( MURDERS. Kurt Kollner was found guilty of Jews in Czortkow in the years of 1942-1943. Her mother's murderer was held accountable in a German court for his wrongdoings. -
1966
Lola gives birth to her 3rd child, Jefferey Scott. He is named after Lolas 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 on hidden children. Jane unlocks not just Lola's words but her emotions. -
1993
Jane Marks's book on hidden children during WWll is published. -
November 21, 1994
Anna Absenczuk the non-jew was finally recognized as one of the righteous at the righteous among the nations. -
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 wore for 9 months. -
2002
Lola's dress travels to different states and cities. Lola travels with it and Sara gets Lola to speak publicly about the events of WWll and the dress.