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1930
Hitler and the Nazi party are telling the world that “Jews are a diseased race.” -
1930
Hitler and the Nazi party are telling the world that “Jews are a diseased race.” -
October 4, 1934
Lola was born. -
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 of Czortkowz -
September 17, 1939
The Russians take over the town. -
1941
Hitler comes up with a plan called the final solution -
Spring 1941
Lola is six and a half and is going to nursery school at her fathers cousins house there are about a dozen other kids there too. -
July 6, 1941
It was a Sunday the Germans arrived in tanks marching with guns and tanks wearing goggles 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 7, 1941
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor in Hawii bringing Amercan into the war -
August
The first action comes for Germans it means a day set aside for rounding up 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 -
April 1942
The Jews in crowktow are confined to a ga=hetto a series of streets and nuldings where Jews muct live you must have proper papers to leave the ghetto -
summer 1942
Lola's dad dies at home -
March 21 1943
Today is pruim a Jewish holiday Lolas mother a cousin and two other women are killed by a German soldier going into his territory and shooting his Jews -
May 1943
A few months after Lolas mother is killed Babcia takes Lola aside right before bed explaining when will be sneaking out of the ghetto that night Babcia does not go with Tekla picks Lola up at the bridge -
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 because he doesn't want her there -
June 1943
A final action happened and the town of czorkow was liquidated and all Jews were killed including Babcia -
Summer 1943
A couple of months after Lola got to the house a man and women came to the room where Lola was The dog never barked.Lola pretends to be deaf and mute. The son in law says that the next day he is taking Lola to the Gestapo. Telka takes Lola in the middle of the night to her sister Anna. Anna places Lola in a 61/2 x 61/2 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 that they are retreating -
March 1944
Lola and the others hear fighting nearby. They can hear the tanks rumbling and the crack of gunfire.To Lola this time it is a wonderful sound -
A morning in March 1944
Anna comes and tell them that they have been liberated by the Russians before sunrise the next day Lola and the others crawl out of the hole they had been in for 9 months -
March 23 1944
Russians control Czortkow which is officially liberated on March 23 1944 -
March 25 26, 1944
Germans come back to czorkow trying to reclaim the territory Lola had to leave because Rose woulden't take her back to the farmhouse. -
April 4 1944
Lola is 9/2 years old and was found passed out on the ground when walking from czorkow A man who knew her father finds her brings her to a strangers house and leaves her there Russian soldiers come and take her Dzymalow -
April 10, 1944
Lola has to beg for food a Russina soldier offers to take her to a orphanage in Kevi -
April 12 1944
The Russian soldier has to drop Lola off in the town of Gritsev. HE explains to the mayor that he was taking Lola to the orphnahge in Kevi but his plans have changed and he has to go back from where that came now.Sergei a man who happened to be at city hall offers to take Lola -
D-Day June 6 1944
American and British soldiers land on the beaches of Normandy France and began to push the Germans westward while the Russians were pushing them eastward.This is the day America thinks is the beginning of the end of WWII -
Summer 1944
Germans completly disappear from Crowkow. -
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 Czortkow to try and find family of Lolas -
April 12 1945
Sergei finally gets into contact with Lolas uncle George.He is living in Lwow.He is one of Lolas mothers brothers.Uncle George goes to Kevi to look for Lola not realizing she isn't in the orphanage.He goes without papers and is placed in jail where he gets really sick -
April 30 1945
Adolf Hitler commits suicide -
V-E Day May 7,1945
Germany surrendered and is known as Victory in Europe day -
Summer 1945
Poles and Ukranians are still killing Jews even though the war is over -
Early August 1945
America drops two atomic bombs on Japan -
V-J Day August 14, 1945
Japan surrendered which is known as Victory over Japan Day -
Late summer 1946
Lola's uncle Isasc shows up at uncle Geroges house Lola likes Krakow.However they don't stay long and end up leaving because the tension between the Poles and Jews has not gone away yet -
Fall 1946
Lola Uncle George,Uncle Geroges family and uncle Itch are moving from country to country trying to escape from the persecution of 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 Isreal because she doesn't want to go to Amercia -
September 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 shes numb even though she knows it is an emotional moment -
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
Lola drops out of high school to work full time because she takes care of herself she dosen,t want to ask her aunt and uncle for anything. -
October 1949
Lola is a teenager but still feels like a child.The only thing she knows for sure that she can walk this is stemming from her trauma during WWII. -
September 1950
Lola graduates at 16 with her comptometer operator certificate she starts working at Saks 34th Street during the day and goes to highschool 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 too. -
April 1952
Lola and Walter get married Lola goes to school and gets her highschool 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 Walters mother Rachel they live in a one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. -
1958
Lola's second child is born Michel Jay he is named after Walters father and Lolas father Walter has gone to school to design and create patterns for coats and suits they move to the suburbs of 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 ses an article with the headline NAZI OFFICER GETS LIFE IN 9 MURDERS Kurt kllner was found gulitaly of killing Jews in Czortkow in the years 1942-1943 her mothers murdered was held accountable in a German court for his wrong doings -
1966
Lola's given birth to her third child Jeffery Scott he is named after Lolas paternal grandfather and her oldest uncle. -
Memorial Day Weekend 1991
50 years of silence was broken when Jane Marks asked Lola for an interview for a book on hidden children Jane unlocks not just Lolas words but her emotions too. -
1993
Jane Marks book on hidden children during WWII is published. Lola's story has been told for the first time. -
November 21 1994
Anna Aksencuz the non Jew who hid Lola in the hole was officially recognized as one of the righteous at the ceremony in Isreal. -
2001
Lola recives a letter from the united states Holocaust Memorial Musuem in Washington DC looking for atifacs that survived WWII Lola donates the dress she wore for the 9 months in the hole -
2002
Lola's dress travels to different states and cities Lola travels with it and Sara Bloomfield where Sara gets Lola to speak about the events of WWII and the dress -
2008
Lola Rein Kaufman writes The hidden girl a true story of the Holocaust. -
October 1 2014
Lola passed away at the age of 79