Eva Galler ( Survivor)
Eva G. was born in 1924 in Oleszyce, Poland. She was the oldest of eight children and is the only survivor of her family.
In October 1942, the Jews were ordered to a Nazi ghetto in nearby Lubachow. In January 1943, the Lubachow ghetto was emptied to Belzec death camp. With their father’s help, Eva and two family member’s jumped from the moving train. Eva’s brother and sister were shot and killed, but Eva landed in deep snow and survived. In the bitter cold she walked back to Oleszyce and was temporarily sheltered by two women (one Ukrainian, one Polish). Eva got to Krakow but was arrested there by the Germans during a street round-up. She pretended to be a Polish Catholic, received the needed documents, and was sent as a forced worker to a German farm. Eva returned to Poland after the war and came together with pre-war dear Henry Galler. In 1946, Eva and Henry were married in Sweden. They moved to New York City and to New Orleans in 1962 where they raised their three daughters.
By:Nicole G.