Eva Nagler Testimony
Object numberM2018/010:003
TitleEva Nagler Testimony
DescriptionEva Nagler (née Ginat), born October 28, 1926 in Lódz, Poland, discusses her early life in Lódz and Andrzejów; her parents’ backgrounds; experiencing antisemitism in school; being a member of the Hanoar Hatzioni; the beginning of the war and her family perishing soon after the German occupation; life in the Lódz ghetto; being sent to several concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Stutthof, and Schippenbeil; surviving the mass shooting at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia); receiving help from a Feldgendarmerie during her flight from the massacre; sailing illegally on a ship from Ostia, Italy and being detained and later released; legally immigrating to Palestine in 1946; and immigrating to Australia in 1957.
Production placeSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Subjectsurvivors, testimonies, ghettos, massacres
Object nametestimonies
Material.wav
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Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mrs Sophie Caplan