Eva Galler: Home In Oleszyce, Poland

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It was the start of a new month when Eva Galler was born. Her home in Oleszyce, Poland was particularly quiet. She had a nice life, and was only seventeen when her and her family were taken. They were put on a train to the Belzec death camp by the Nazis. Eva and two of her siblings tried to escape, but gunshots were fired and she was the only one who made it through. She fled to board a train to Krakow, Poland, but she was found by the authorities. Eva was assumed to be a Gentile, though, so she was sent to a market where German farmers went to get new workers. Her job was at a farm in Sudetenland, and worked for a year before being transferred to another farm. When the war was over, she went back to OLeszyce, Poland. Eva married and lived

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