Place of Birth: Oleszyce, Poland
Date of Birth: January 1, 1924
Life During Wartime: Escaped from a Death Train
Current Occupation: Homemaker, Hebrew Teacher
Family: Married, Three Daughters
Eva
Born in the city in Poland. When Eva was an infant her mother had loss for children. Her community was of 7,000 families half were Jewish. Her home was big enough to accommodate the household for Rebbe’s and his family. Who live with her for three years? He was a famous Rabbi when Eva was born. So in her eyes this was an honor Her father was (Israel Vogel) head of the Jewish community. Her father had a business with religious article, which left Eva wondering how they were made. They would stretch animal skin on the frame to make the parchment, which would be cut into sheets. Sobers or scribes would then write the letters on the parchment. Then they would sew the parchment and sheet (took a year to a scribe the entire Torch), together and thread made of animal sinew. He father would take them to work and get paid. Her father sold then in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary Rumania and later the US. Her mother (Ita Prince) was and orphan. The family she lives in was too poor to afford a dowry those were her days were hard to find to get married with out one. Her mother Ita was 18 at the time and her father was 34. They matched them together because Israel Vogel (Eva’s father) was rich and because he promised to take in all her sisters and provided dowries from them all. Ita didn’t want to marry Israel but she had no choice. Ita foster family made her marry him or else she would have to provide herself and her three sisters. After her father didn’t want Eva to go to high school Eva was on a hunger strike, she would eat. Eva locked herself in her room until her father agreed that she could go to high school. Eva was aware of the Nazis’ and events in Germany from the newspapers. Germany was force to return to Poland which led up to the kaistallnacht her father gave a room to one refugee family that had no place to live. Eva and her family didn’t believe Hitler coming to Poland. Eva didn’t believe in Hitler coming to Poland until people didn’t believe that Germans would invade them. Some people didn’t believe until they saw airplanes. Then the treaty came in. in 941 the Russians were in charge. Eva still had a year left to complete high school and her father could no long run the business because Russians didn’t permit the practice of religion. After all eva was the oldest and had to take responsibility and get a job. Her father labeled capitalist because he was rich and was a business man. Eva as the daughter she couldn’t get a job. She was given a job when she wrote Stalin. She started out as a secretary and then advanced assistant assessor in the local internal revenue office. About 6 o'clock Sunday morning we heard gunshots and went out to see what was happening. German motorcycles were going down the main street. Soldiers were shooting right and left. Whoever was on the street was killed right away. This is when our problems began. Jews were not able or keep any jobs. People began to trade their belongings with the farmers for food. At the time potatoes and flour was more important then money. Eva was one of the lucky one she knew the tax of books but didn’t get paid instead it was bread which was better then money she would share it with other people when she would go home. Eva and her family came to United States on May 4 1954, after 8 years in Sweden it was difficult to adjust to New York life. It was difficult for her English she only spoke Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish, Russian, German and Swedish. She was pregnant and stayed home most of the time. Eva learned English by helping her oldest daughter with her spelling. “I’ve helped my daughter with her spelling, and my daughter tested me after we were done. Eva reported. After living in New York for seven years Eva and her family began to adjust. In 1962 eventually Eva’s Husband started his own business a tailoring business. At the time Eva was a proud mother of two girls. “Where’s was God when my parents were taken from me?” quoted Eva Eva says that the picture will never leave her mind the night her brother shouted that he wanted to live. “Most of the times when Eva lies down she still hears that voice. That voice that will never leave my head. Not ever. He was only three years old. Where was God?” quoted Eva In Poland after the war Eva became emotionally and physical sick. She was losing weight and received a shot doctor. Eva had terrible nightmares, she went to see a psychiatrist. Eva’s older daughter was soon on her way to college at Ivy League college. “I was too afraid to let her go. Go from home to school. We were afraid to let our children know too much about my past.” In 1985 Eva graduated from the University of New Orleans. She didn’t talk to anyone in the beginning Eva’s older child had to write a paper for the school. That’s how she began to talk. Now Eva and Henry go to schools talking about their night mare that’s lasted more or seem what lasted a life time. The holocaust “But life goes on.” Eva said |
Her father was (Israel Vogel) head of the Jewish community. Her father had a business with religious article, which left Eva wondering how they were made. They would stretch animal skin on the frame to make the parchment, which would be cut into sheets. Sobers or scribes would then write the letters on the parchment. Then they would sew the parchment and sheet (took a year to a scribe the entire Torch), together and thread made of animal sinew. He father would take them to work and get paid. Her father sold then in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary Rumania and later the US.
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Her mother (Ita Prince) was and orphan. The family she lives in was too poor to afford a dowry those were her days were hard to find to get married with out one. Her mother Ita was 18 at the time and her father was 34. They matched them together because Israel Vogel (Eva’s father) was rich and because he promised to take in all her sisters and provided dowries from them all. Ita didn’t want to marry Israel but she had no choice. Ita foster family made her marry him or else she would have to provide herself and her three sisters.
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