Edith Jucker was just a small child when she and her family endured treacherous conditions during the Holocaust, narrowly escaping death several times. Now, she shares her survival story.
Rosie NguyenEdith Jucker, an 87-year-old Meyerland woman, shares her Holocaust survival story with ABC13 during Jewish American Heritage Month.Edith Jucker was only 2 years old when the Nazis invaded Poland, triggering the start of World War II on Sept. 1, 1939. However, she still vividly remembers when her 26-year-old mother decided to leave everything behind and run for their lives with two of her uncles and their families.
During the dangerous trek, they separated from the rest of their family in the forest once they reached the river and jumped into different boats. However, Russian soldiers surrounded them, thinking they were German spies, and took them to a gulag labor camp for political prisoners in Siberia."There was a lack of food and medicine. There was no electricity, so we used kerosene lamps. No running water or toilet.
Jucker and her mother stayed at a temporary shelter until they could find an apartment. Each day, she said they would go to the Jewish community to look for any of their relatives or friends who survived. Nearly two years later, her father eventually tracked her down after both of her parents had remarried. She lost touch with him shortly after and never saw him again.
She currently lives in Meyerland and now has three children, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
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