Eva Ozarowski

Eva's family had limited contact with their relatives trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto, and her father grew increasingly concerned about the possibility of a Nazi invasion of Portugal.

In 1942, funds were raised by Eleanor Roosevelt and the Quakers to rescue refugee children and send them to safety in the United States. Lisbon was one of the few European ports open for this effort.

Upon her arrival in the United States, Eva was taken in by a Jewish foster family in St. Louis, Missouri. She still maintains contact with this family today. In 1949, after many difficult years, her parents were finally able to escape to the United States as well. Eva eventually married a fellow Holocaust survivor, Uszer Ozarowski.

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