Eva Nagler

Eva Nagler (née Ginat), born October 28, 1926 in Lodz, Poland, describes growing up in Poland before the war; experiencing the beginning of the war and German occupation; witnessing rampant antisemitism; living in the ghetto; the dynamic of the Judenrat; coping with her father’s death from tuberculosis; being transported to Auschwitz, Stutthof, and then to Schippenbeil (Sepopol, Poland); the death march and then hiding; working as an Aryan in Pillau, Germany (now Baltiisk, Russia); being liberated by Russian soldiers; moving to Poland, Italy, and Israel after the war; and immigrating to Australia in 1952 and establishing her life there.