Eva Galler ( January 1 , 1924 - January 5 , 2006 ) was a Jewish holocaust survivor , born in Oleszyce , Poland . While being deported to the Belzec Extermination Camp , she escaped by jumping out the train window with her brother and sister . Her siblings were shot and killed as they fell out the train , but Galler managed to escape by landing in a deep hole . She spent the rest of the war working on a farm in Germany and later moved to America . In her later life , she traveled to schools to speak to students about her story . In her lifetime , Eva Galler and her husband , Henry Galler , spoke to over 600,000 high school and middle school students about their experiences in World War II in an effort to educate them about tolerance and the need to overcome racism of any kind
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