Anna Zupauska, Barbara Anna Kulka was my mother.  She was the eldest daughter of 7 children, born in 1925 in Stanislav (Poland) aka Ukraine.  She was taken at age 14 from her home in a city  and placed as a forced laborer in one of Hitlers camps.  

After the war my mother could not locate any family members and  was encouraged by a priest to come to the USA.  She had a sponsor and was immediately placed in a job as a kitchen worker at St Francis Home for Boys.  My sister was placed in an all girls orphanage but was still under the care of my mother. I am Anna Kulka first born daughter in the USA.  My father, Harold Roy Kulka. I recall my mother telling me the very first obligation she had here in America was to pay back the cost of her transportation to the USA.

She lived a long life and would rarely ever speak of her life back in Poland.  I knew her father was a large land owner with cattle and that her only brother, Matthew, would ride horse back all night guarding the cattle.  I came to learn the area in which my mother came from was home to one of the largest Jewish populations in the world.  

Yes, I know of a few things about my mothers past and the life she came from.  I was never certain of why there was so much secrecy about her past, but there was. I think that my mother feared for her life, my sisters life and probably our lives too.  I asked my mother why she had dark brown hair, olive skin and brown eyes and I, blue eyes and blonde hair.  Her response was "dammed Turks".  In the home I grew up in that was considered an answer.  I grew up and developed a world view through the eyes of my mother.  We had to think, figure it out.  While I was born and raised catholic, I found it curious how my mother kept only 2 books in our living room.  One a book on dream interpretations, what dreams meant, and an Astrology book.  I found this to be fascinating.  I always ran over to those books to figure out my inner thoughts and to understand myself as a person

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