Born in southeast Poland in 1934, Lola Rein lost everything at the age of eight when her parents died in the Holocaust. Lola's grandmother arranged for her to be concealed by a Ukrainian family, and she spent seven months hiding in a barn, her only possession a beautiful dress her mother had embroidered for her. After Poland's liberation, she would be adopted by an uncle and move to the United States, one of the few survivors of her town.
With author Lois Metzger, she tells her powerful
story in the book The Hidden Girl. In this Holocaust Remembrance
Day event, Ms. Kaufman and Ms. Metzger will speak about the Holocaust
experience and the process of transforming memory into writing.
