19. Fleeing the Holocaust and Resisting the Nazis
In 1918, Eta Wrobel was born in Lokov, Poland, into a large Jewish family of ten children. Her father taught his offspring to help others, no matter the circumstances, and she took that to heart. When the Germans conquered Poland, things got horrifically bad for the country’s Jews, but Eta, who described herself as a “born a fighter“, was determined to do what she could to resist.
So she began forging false identity papers for Jews, until 1942, when Eta’s ghetto was liquidated, and she and her family were packed off to concentration camps. Fortunately, she and her father managed to escape en route and fled into the woods near Lokov. Unfortunately, she was the only one of ten siblings to survive the Holocaust.