hidden girl

By link7
  • 1918

    czortkow became a part of Poland.
  • 1930's

    hitler tells the world that jews are a diseased race
  • october 4 1934

    Lola was born
  • November 9 1938

    a German officer is killed by a Jew triggering the night of broken glass
  • summer 1939

    czorkow starts having rolling black outs
    all street lights are off
  • Europe in 1939

    6 million Jews are killed in the second world war.one and a half a million were jewish children who only had a 10% chance to survive
  • September 1 1939

    hitler invades Poland where 3.3 millian jews live
  • September 1939

    Lola is free to walk around the marketplace with her mother russiasn soldires arrive
  • september 17 1939

    the Russians take over the town
  • 1941

    hitler comes up with a plan to kill all of Europe its called the final solution.
  • spring 1941

    lola is 6 and a half and goes to nursery school with about a dozen other kids there
  • july 6 1941

    it was a Sunday the german soldir arvied in town marching with guns and tanks.
  • october 15 1941

    german laws say any one who helps jews are to be kill
  • December 7 1941

    Japan bombs Pearl Harbor in Hawaii bringing the Americans into the war
  • april 1942

    the jews are confined in ghettos must have proper papers to leave the ghettos
  • summer 1942

    Lola dad dies at home
  • august 26-27 1942

    the first action to Germans it means to round up jews and train them to concentren camps Lola and her family hide in a wall.
  • may 1943

    a few months after her mom is killed babcha explains
    Lola will sneak out of the ghetto to hide from the german
  • march 21 1943

    today is Purim day Lola mom and cousin are killed by a german officer
  • spring 1943

    teklas son in law works in the field Lola is always afraid of him
  • june 1943

    a final action happened and the town of czortkow was liquidated and all Jews were killed including babcia
  • summer 1943

    a couple months after Lola gets to the house , a man and a woman came to the room where Lola was. The dog never barks. Lola pretends to be deaf and mute. The son-in-law says that the next day he is taking Lola to the Gestapo. Tekla takes Lola in the middle of the night to Anna where she is put into a 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 foot hold with 3 other Jews.
  • january 1944

    just after the year anna tells lola and the others that the germans are losing the war and retreating.
  • march 1944

    lola and the others hear fighting nearby.they can hear tanks rumbling and the crack of gun fire. to lola this is a wonderful sound.
  • a morning in march 1944

    Anna comes and tells 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

    Russians control czortkow Which was officially liberated on march 23 1944
  • march 25-26 1944

    germans come back to czortkow trying to reclaim their territory Lola had to leave czortkow because rose wouldn't take her to the farm house.
  • April 4 1944

    Lola is 9 and a half and was found passed out on the ground when walking from czortkow.a man who knew her father finds her and brings her to a strangers house and leaves her there.Russians soldires come and take her dzymalow.
  • 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 a small town of gritsev. he explains to the mayor that he was taking lola to the orphanage in keiv but his plans have changed and now he has to go back to were they came.sergei a man who happens to be at city hall offers to take lola
  • summer 1944

    German completely disappear from czortkow
  • d-day june 6 1944

    American and british soldiers land on the beaches of Normandy France and begin to push the Germans westward while Russians are pushing them eastward.this day america thinks is the beginning 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 czortkow to try and find family of Lola's.
  • April 12 1945

    Sergei finally gets Into contact with Lola's uncle George he is living Lwow he is one of Lola's mother's brother's.uncle George goes to Keiv not realizing she wasn't in the orphanage.He goes without papers and is placed in jail where he gets really sick.
  • v-e day may 7 1945

    Germany surrendered. known as victory in Europe day.
  • summer 1945

    poles an Ukrainians are still killing Jews even though the war is over.
  • early August 1945

    america drops 2 atomic bombs on japan.
  • v-j day August 14 1945

    Japan surrenders.Known as victory over japan day.
  • September 1945

    Lola gets on 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's numb even though she knows it is a emotional moment.
  • late summer 1946

    Lola's uncle Isaac shows up at uncle George's 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.
  • fall 1946

    Lola,uncle George,uncle George's family and uncle Itch are moving country to country trying to escape 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 Israel because she doesn't want to go to America.
  • july 7 1949

    Lola finally gets clearence 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.
  • October 1949

    Lola is a teenager but feels like a child.the only thing she knows for sure is she can walk.this is stemming from her trauma during WWll.
  • September 1950

    Lola graduates at 16 with her comptometer operator certificate.she starts working at saks 34th Street during the day and 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 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 Michael Jay.He is named after Walters father and Lola father Walter has gone to school to design and create coats and suits.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 posts an article headlined with Nazi officer gets life in 9 murders
  • 1966

    Lola gives birth to her 3rd child Jeffery Scott he is named after Lola's paternal grandfather and her oldest uncle.
  • memorial day weekend 1991

    50 years of silence was broken when Jane marks asked Lola a interview. for a book on hidden children jane unlocks not just lola's words but her emotions too.
  • 1993

    Jane marks book on hidden children during WWll was published.
  • november 21 1994

    Anna aksenczuk the non-jew who hid Lola in the hole was officially recognized as one of the righteous.
  • 2001

    Lola gets a letter from the United States holocaust memorial looking for artifacts that survived the war. Lola donates the dress she wore for 9 months
  • 2002

    Lola dress travels to different states and city's lola travels with it and sara bloomfeild Lola gets to publicly speak about the events o WWll Andy the dress
  • 2008

    Lola writes and publishes the hidden girl a true story of the Holocaust .
  • october 1 2014

    Lola passes away at the age of 79