Michael Opas - [n.d.]
Going Back to Poland
I finally find--found out--after this I, I went, I went back to Poland. Yeah, I went back to Poland. Took me three weeks to get there. The trains were, were down--everything. I had to, I had to hitchhike and I had to walk mi...for miles 'til I get there to Czechoslovakia. Oh, it took me a long time 'til I get--got there. But I found out that my sis...my brother married in, in the ghetto--in the Łódź ghetto. He married--a younger brother of mine--he married and they were separated. In Auschwitz they were separated. He was sent to Auschwitz to--and she was sent to a different camp, I don't know. And she was sent, she was sent with my sister. She went with my sister to a different camp, to oth...to, to uh, I don't know, I said before--in, in, in uh, Theresienstadt...
Mm-hm.
...in Czechoslovakia. And had--my sister-in-law had a sister with her also, so. They were all called Opas...
Hm.
...because my sister-in-law was--her husband, naturally--Opas. So they were, they were known as three sisters. So this how my, my school friend told me that, "Your three sisters are survived." And I was overjoyed--three, all three of my sisters have survived--that's wonderful but somehow I couldn't visualize this. 'Til I found out when I went to Poland after war, after this...
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