The Hidden Girl

  • 1930s

    Hitler told everyone at his party "Jews are are a dieseased race"
  • October 4, 1934

    Lola is born
  • November 9, 1938

    A German officer was killed in Paris by a Jew. set off a backlash. now known as the night of broken glass
  • Summer 1939

    Czortkow starts having blackouts all streetlights turned off. Jews put black paper over there windows so German bombers cant see them.
  • September 1, 1939

    Hitler invades Poland, where 3.3 million Jews.
  • September 1939

    Lola is free to walk around the market place with her mother.the Russian soldiers arrive
  • September 17, 1939

    The Russians take over Czortkow
  • 1941

    Hitler comes up with a plan, which is to execute all Jews. this is called the final solution.
  • Spring 1941

    Lola is 6 1/2 years old and is going to nursery school at her fathers cousins house, there are about a dozen other kid there.
  • 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.
  • October 15, 1941

    the Germans produced a law stating that if anyone provides anything to Jews they will be executed.
  • April 1942

    The Jews in Czortkow are confined to a ghetto, a series of streets and buildings where all Jews must live. You must have papers to leave.
  • Summer 1942

    Lola's dad dies at home
  • August 26-17 1942

    The first "action" come. for Germans, it means by day set aside for rounding up huge numbers 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.
  • March 21, 1943

    Today is Purim, a Jewish holiday. Lola's mother, a cousin, and two other women were killed by a German soldier Kurt Kollner, enacting revenge for another German soldier going into his territory and "shooting his Jews".
  • May 1943

    a few months afetr Lola's mother is killed, babcia takes Lola aside right before bed, explaining she will be sneaking out of the ghetto tonight babcia does not go with her.
  • Spring 1943

    teklas son in law works in the fields even tho it is still windy and cold. Lola is always scared of him.
  • Summer 1943

    A couple months after Lola goes to a house a man and a women came to the room where Lola was the dog never barks Lola pretends to be deaf.
  • January 1944

    after the new year of 1944 anna tells Lola and others that the others that germans are losing the war