[jakimicha]

My great-grandmother came to the US around 1910-12 and was about 16. There are very few details about her, but her name was Eva Kot. I know that she worked in a clothing factory in NY as a teenager (had on site bunks where they slept between shifts?). Her father was already in the US but he went back to Austria/Poland to visit family and never returned. The factory boss told my great grandmother that her entire family were butchered by the Russians.

At some point Eva met with my Great Grandfather Mykolaj Jakimicha (Nickoli Yakimicki) and they were married in one of the places they lived before settling in Indiana (Boston, Philly).

Nickoli died young and left Eva with my grandpa John and his 4 sisters. Grandpa quit school (12 years old) to support the family and enlisted in the army for better pay as soon as he could (16).

Eva's sisters, who she was told had died at the hands of the Russians, appeared at the bus station near our Indiana farm in the 1960's! They had not died, but were in some sort of labor or concentration camp that they had escaped from....at least one had numbers tattooed on her arm.

It seems that Eva's mothers maiden name may have been something like "Kopka" (maybe its kowka/kofka?). Her sisters settled in New Jersey. I am working to contact relatives there to see if they have more details.

I have found an Ewa Gancarz on the Ellis Island site that seems to correlate with my great grandmother... age, name, dates and family with and back home seems to fit. The home village listed looks to be Wyszkow. Has anybody else researched this area?

I find only one Wyszkow on current maps, but there seems to be a few possibly localities on the LDS index. Are these actually different places or the same? I would like to narrow it down and start looking through LDS films hoping for an Eva Kot with a Kopka mothers maiden name.