THE SURVIVAL OF EVA GALLER

She was born in a city in poland named Olezyce. Their community  had 7,000 families, and half of them were Jews. Her father was the head of jewish community. When she was an infant her mother lost four children. Her father had a business of distributing religious articles. To make these articles they would stretch animal skin on a frame to make the parchment. Then the partchment would be cut into sheets. Then the scribes would write the letters on the parchment. It took the scribes a whole year to to write a torah. They then sewed the parchment sheets together into the scrolls with threads made of animals sinews. The jews fand the non-jews in our town did not mix socially only when it came to buisness. The christians were told the jews killed christ.  People didnt believe the nazis would come until they saw the airplanes. In the next couple days germans occupied all of Poland. Then there wasnt anything anyone could do about it. On the evening of june 1941 here family wnt to sleep and about 6 o'clock sunday morning they heard gun shots. They saw the german motorcycles  going down the street and the soldiers were shooting right and left. Who ever was in the street got killed for sure. They had to do what the germans wanted or they would be killed. Jews were not allowed to walk on the sidewalksthey had t o walk down the middle of the street.

In january of 1943 the Nazi's took her family to cattle trains where people were running away from the trains but then they were shot. Once they got on the train they had to stand up because there was no room to sit. Then a young boy tore the bobwire off the windows so people started to jump out. Then their father the   oldest three to run because they might survive. Her brother jumped out first then her sister then her and the SS men shot at them Eva landed in a snow bank, then she looked she was not shot but when she looked back her brother and her sister were dead and at this time Eva was 17. She then went back to her hometown and went into hiding. She had to survive off a loaf of bread and 25 polish zlotys. She then had to leave so she went to another family members house but was scared so she went and spent two nights in the train station. Then she met this great guy and as her life was going good she had he first daughter. By May 1954 she had two other kids wich were girls. After the war she was very sick emotionally and physically. Then in 1985 she graduated from the university of New Orleans. Now her and her husband go to different school to talk about the holocaust.


         What ive learned from this is you have to be strong no matter what because back then the jews had it really hard and they couldnt fight back even if they wanted  to. And they lost almost everything that they had because of the nazis.


Works Cited:
Zusak, Markus.  The Book Thief.  NY:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.  Print.