1919
Frieda Lorch was born in Jena, Germany.
1929
Frieda’s older brother emigrated to Buffalo, New York, with some aunts and uncles feeling that the University in Jena was too anti-Semitic at the time.
1931
1931-1932: Frieda began being excluded from social and school events because she was Jewish. Frieda’s friends began avoiding her. They no longer visited her in her home and she was left to walk alone. She was excluded from social and school events for being a Jew.
1933
The SS troops stood in front of department stores or Jewish businesses, telling bystanders not to come in. Frieda’s father was asked to leave his position. Parades and marching on the streets was done publically in the name of Hitler. Frieda and her sister were no longer allowed to go swimming or attend the tennis club. One of the teachers in Frieda’s school who was also a professor at the university lost his position because he refused to say “Heil Hitler” when entering the classroom. Frieda’s sister began studying medicine at the University of Jena.
1937
Frieda’s sister was not allowed to take her final medical exam because she was Jewish.