I went to school for a short while,
and then they just closed all the schools.
And everybody had to go to work.
So they send me to a place that was making carpets.
It was a teppich ressort.
It consisted-- We had, like, a frame...
with some kind of cotton going through,
and we used to get pieces of material...
and make long-- like, long pieces of material.
And we used to weave it in and make designs. They really came out quite nice.
And then after a short while, they disbanded it and sent all the young children...
to a-- other factory,
a factory that were making-- I think-- believe was uniforms for the Germans.
And we worked there. And from there, there was--
The Germans asked the director of this factory occasionally...
to give him names, people, they should evacuate.
And one day there was a list, and my name was on this list.
And I knew I have to hide unless they come and look for me.
I had an uncle which was a policeman in the ghetto,
so when I saw the name, I went to him and asked him, "Please, could you do something?
You know the director of the place. They should take off my name from the list."
And he did, and he managed to take off my name,
but unfortunately for me, my name was typed twice,
and the other name was still on this list.
And one day, they came to look for me.
I was under-- We were in this little place that we were.
A couple of apartments was spread out,
and we had a little bit of ground in the back,
and all the tenants used to divide a little piece of ground.
And we used to put some--
grow some vegetables--
radishes, beets, cucumbers--
And we also had fruit trees, which really helped us in the ghetto.
So we used to divide whatever fruit we'd grow against the tenants,
and everybody got a little.
And one day, when I was in the back,
I heard somebody come in and yell "Eva Zysman."
And I had a bad feeling about it, because I knew my name was on the list.
So I ran in the back, and I laid down between the beets--
the beets-- and I covered myself with the beets.
I put it all around. And they came to my mother and ask her, "Where is Eva?"
And she says, "I don't know. I don't know where she is."
So they said, "We're gonna wait." Says, "Well, I don't know how long it's gonna take."
But she says, "Here." She gave him a bag of apples.
"Please write down that she's not here."
So, "Okay." They took the apples; they went away.
And this was the first time that they saved me.