Eva Galler was born in the small town of Oleszyce in southeastern Poland (Galicia). She was eldest of eight children. In October 1942, the Jews were ordered to a Nazi ghetto in nearby Lubachow. In January 1943, the Lubachow ghetto was evacuated to Belzec death camp. With their fathers encouragement, Eva and two siblings jumped from the moving train. Evas brother and sister were shot and killed, but Eva landed in deep snow and survived. In the bitter cold she walked back to Oleszyce and was temporarily sheltered by two women (one Ukrainian, one Polish). Eva reached Krakow but was arrested there by the Germans during a street round-up. She pretended to be a Polish Catholic, received the necessary documents, and was sent as a forced laborer to a German farm. Eva returned to Poland after the war and was reunited with pre-war sweetheart Henry Galler. In 1946, Eva and Henry were married in Sweden. They moved to New York City and to New Orleans in 1962 where they raised their three daughters. This series was funded by the Rita and Harold Divine Foundation, the Siggy Boraks Family, and made possible by the generous contribution of video production services of WDSU-TV in New Orleans.