Ester Fiszgop was born on January
14, 1929 and raised in Brest, Poland, where most of her family lived too. Their
family was traditional Jews who spent a lot of time together. In 1931 the
Germans came into Ester's town with bombs and guns, and started taking over.
Her town was eventually split and given to the Russians. She explains that one day
she went to visit her grandmother in a neighboring town. This was the last time
she would ever see her parents or her little brother again. She was caught
along with her grandmother and cousins when the Germans took over again. She
and a lot of other Jews were put in a ghetto covered with barb wire fence and
it was about the length of a city block she states. Ester and her grandmother were
getting sick. She explains that her and her cousins could her soldiers talk
about Treblinka and liquidation. They knew they had to get out. She goes on to
tell the story how late one night her grandmother, cousins and her escaped, and
went to a house in the forest where they knew they could hide. The ghetto was
beginning to be liquidated and the Germans were everywhere. She stared that she
remembers falling asleep holding her grandmother. When she woke up her
grandmother was gone. After that is was just her and her three cousins. For six
months they hid in a hole in the ground just barely big enough for the four of
them to set with their knees against their chest. She tells about when she was
12 she split up with her cousins. She had to sleep on the ground and steal
dinner from animals, and wash herself when it rained. She did this for around 3
years. One day she saw a woman riding around on a horse. She had finally been
liberated be a Russian woman. She was taken to Italy for 3 years waiting to
come to the U.S.
“I
turned from a little girl to a Jesus killer”
“it was
great wondering around not being shot at”
“Why
are you crying?” “I want chocolate!”
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