1926
Toby is born in Czernica
1931
Toby starts school
September 1939
World War II breaks out
1939-1941
Czernica under Russian control, Toby attends Soviet school
Komsomolki
Summer 1941
Nazis take over Czernica.
Fall 1942
Nazis order Czernica Jews to evacuate to Brody, where they establish a ghetto
March 1943
Toby and her sister Surcie escape from the ghetto
1943-1944
Toby hides alone in the woods and barns near Czernica for a year
May 1943
Liquidation of the Brody Ghetto, Toby’s mother escapes
March 1944
Russian soldiers liberate Czernica, only Toby and her mother survive, losing her father, two sisters, and brother
1949
Toby marries Max Fluek, after four years in DP camp in Germany
1950
Daughter Lillian is born in The Bronx, New York, after Toby and Max come to America
1961
Toby starts to paint images of her life in Czernica, encouraged by her mother to paint the farm
Toby continues to paint images from her childhood and exhibiting her work
1981
Release of film Image Before My Eyes: A History of Jewish Life in Poland before the Holocaust (Joshua Waletzky, director; Jerome Badanes, author), with Toby Fluek interviewed in the first vignette, representing Jewish village life
1990
Toby’s first book of paintings, drawings, and text appears, Memories of My Life in a Polish Village 1930-1949, New York: Alfred A. Knopf
1992
Toby’s second book is published, Passover As I Remember It, New York: Alfred A. Knopf
2008
Premier of film Toby’s Sunshine: The Life and Art of Holocaust Survivor Toby Knobel Fluek (Rakhmiel Peltz, producer and project director, Drexel University, 51 minutes).
2011
Death of Toby Fluek