The Hidden Girl

  • 1918

    czortkow in apart of poland
  • 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.
  • Europe 1939

    6,000,000 out of 9,000,000 Jews died during ww2
  • 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.
  • December 7th 1941

    Japan bombs pearl harbor
  • December 07 1941

    Japan bombs pearl harbor
  • 1942

    Walter was 19, him and his brothers were hiding from the poles
  • 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.
  • April 1942

    Lola and Walter get married
  • 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.
  • June of 1943

    the final action happened and the town of czortkow was liquidated and all the Jews were killed including babcia
  • 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
  • March 1944

    They hear fighting nearby, Lola this time was wonderful sound.
  • 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.
  • March 23 1944

    Russians control czortkow which was officially liberated on March 23 1944
  • March 25, 1944

    Germans return to czortkow.
  • April 4, 1944

    Lola is 9 1/2 was found passed out on the ground when walking from Czortkow.
  • April 1944

    Lola spent days in a government building
  • 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 to the orphanage in keiv but his plans have been changed and he has to now go back to where they came. Sergei a man who happened to be at city hall offers to Lola.
  • Summer 1944

    The Germans completely disappear from Czortkow.
  • June 6 1944

    American and British land on beaches of france
  • October 4, 1944

    Lola turns 10 years old living with Sergei. she is sad and upset but will not let anyone know. She is dealing with big emotions.
  • April 12, 1945

    Lola and sergei get in contact with lolas uncle.
  • April 30th 1945

    aldolf Hitler commits suicide on april 30 1945
  • v eday may 07 1945

    Germany surrendered
  • August 1945

    america drops two atomic bombs on japan
  • August 14 1945

    Vj day victory over japan
  • September 1945

    Lola gets on a train with a man named romek heading to Krakow to be reunited with her unc George.
  • fall 1946

    Lola uncle George and his family Uncle itch moving country to country
  • December 1966 to January 1947

    Lola is in a displaced persons camp run by the united nation
  • may 7 1949

    Victory in Europe day aka ve day
  • July 7, 1949

    Lola gets permission to go to america
  • September 1949

    Lola starts high school but drops out to work
  • October 04 1949

    Lola is 15 a teenager but she still feels like a child
  • September 1950

    Lola graduates
  • 1955

    Lola is 21 pregnant with with her first child
  • 1958

    lolas second child is born
  • june 26 1962

    NAZI OFFICER GETS LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDERING JEWS
  • 1966

    third child is born
  • memorial day weekend in 1991

    50 years of silence was broken Lola spoke out about ww2
  • 1993

    Jane marks book was published in 1993
  • November 21 1994

    Anna was recognized
  • 2001

    Lola gets a letter from holocaust museum
  • 2002

    lolas dress travels to different states.
  • 2008

    Lola writes and publishes the hidden girl
  • October 1 2004

    Lola passed away at 79