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interviewee: josef none none |
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rg_number: rg-50.030.0047 |
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pdf_url: https://collections.ushmm.org/oh_findingaids/rg-50.030.0047_trs_en.pdf |
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ushmm_url: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504547 |
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gender: m |
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birth_date: 1915-06-25 |
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birth_year: 1915.0 |
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place_of_birth: vienna |
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country: austria |
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experience_group: survivor |
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ghetto(s)_encyclopedia: przemyśl |
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ghetto: none |
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camp(s)_encyclopedia: none |
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camp: none |
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non_ss_camp: none |
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region: none |
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needs_research: none |
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data_entry: cl |
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accession: 1989.a.0338 |
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revisit: none |
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tags: transcripts |
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<body><dialogue class=""><p><sentence id="1">JOSEF September 22, 1989 </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="3">Q: Would you tell me your first name, please? </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="5">A: My name is Josef. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="7">Q: Where and where were you born? </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="9">A: I was born in <span class="populated place">Vienna</span> in 1915 -- June 25th, 1915. </sentence><sentence id="10">And after a few years, when I was a little boy, my parents moved back to <span class="country">Poland</span> and -- before World War I. This was <span class="region">Galicia</span>. </sentence><sentence id="11">And I was living in the <span class="populated place">town</span> of <span class="populated place">Przemysl</span>, and I went back with my parents and I living in <span class="populated place">Przemysl</span>. </sentence><sentence id="12">This was my <span class="populated place">town</span>. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="17">Q: Ok, tell me about your parents. </sentence><sentence id="18">What did your father do? </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="21">A: My father, he had a small <span class="building">grocery store</span>, like small <span class="interior space">cafeteria</span>, and he worked with my mother in the <span class="building">store</span>. </sentence><sentence id="22">And -- </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="25">Q: Did you have brothers and sisters? </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="27">A: Yes, I have one sister, and I have four brothers. </sentence><sentence id="28">So it -- how many? </sentence><sentence id="29">Three brothers, and I was the fourth one -- and one sister. </sentence><sentence id="30">Together, five children. </sentence><sentence id="31">And we went to <span class="building">school</span> in <span class="populated place">Przemysl</span>, and my sister was going to the <span class="building">school</span> in <span class="populated place">Przemysl</span> until war time. </sentence><sentence id="32">And my older brother, after graduation from <span class="building">high school</span>, he went to <span class="country">Italy</span>, to <span class="populated place">Bologna</span>. </sentence><sentence id="33">He was studying medicine there. </sentence><sentence id="34">So we were <span class="building">home</span>. </sentence><sentence id="35">And after he finished the studying, he was still working in <span class="populated place">Bologna</span>. </sentence><sentence id="36">He was a scientist, and a very good physician. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="47">Q: Ok -- what, tell me -- let's bring it back to you, ok, since we want to focus on you. </sentence><sentence id="48">Tell me, you have a family, it's -- you're growing up in the <span class="populated place">town</span> of <span class="populated place">Przemysl</span>. </sentence><sentence id="49">Did you go to -- what kind of activities did you take place in? </sentence><sentence id="50">Were you in <span class="building">Jewish school</span>? </sentence><sentence id="51">What kinds of -- </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="57">A: No, when I was in <span class="building">high school</span> -- first of all, when I was in <span class="building">public school</span>, how my life start? </sentence><sentence id="58">I went one time with my father to a dentist, and I look around and I said, "I would like to be a dentist." </sentence><sentence id="59">So my father look at me and said, "Ok, if you will be a good pupil, student, you will be a dentist." </sentence><sentence id="60">But this dentist, he was a good psychologist, and he said, "If you like to be a dentist, you can come to my <span class="building">office</span> to watch after <span class="building">school</span>, after homework, and you are very welcome." </sentence><sentence id="61">And I was coming to him, and when I graduated from <span class="building">high school</span>, still I was coming to him, and I was assisting him. </sentence><sentence id="62">And I learned about everything else from his work. </sentence><sentence id="63">Then when war broke up, no, that's it, I couldn't do nothing. </sentence><sentence id="64">then after war was finished. </sentence><sentence id="65">I am going a little too -- then I start to study in <span class="building">grad school</span>, dentistry. </sentence><sentence id="66">But during the war, first when the German attacked <span class="country">Polish country</span>, this was in September Ist, 1939. </sentence><sentence id="67">There was a terrible time. </sentence><sentence id="68">There suddenly became <span class="spatial object">airplanes</span> and they start to bombard people on the <span class="dlf">street</span>. </sentence><sentence id="69">There was exactly vacation finishing, and the children, they have first day at <span class="building">school</span>, and they came in this beautiful weather. </sentence><sentence id="70">The sun was shining and they was walking on the <span class="dlf">street</span>. </sentence><sentence id="71">And suddenly came <span class="spatial object">planes</span>. </sentence><sentence id="72">You -- we didn't know. </sentence><sentence id="73">We thought this is our own <span class="spatial object">planes</span>. </sentence><sentence id="74">Very low. </sentence><sentence id="75">And they suddenly start to with machine guns killing the people on the <span class="dlf">street</span>. </sentence><sentence id="76">Throwing bombs, was killed, terrible thing. </sentence><sentence id="77">And then we heard on the news that this is for the war. </sentence><sentence id="78">The Germans attacked <span class="country">Polish country</span>. </sentence><sentence id="79">So after two or three days, there was -- the President of the <span class="country">Poland</span>, he gave an order to young people to run away to <span class="region">east</span>, in the direction of <span class="country">Russia</span>. </sentence><sentence id="80">So we went, four brothers together in the <span class="region">east</span> to the <span class="populated place">city</span> of <span class="populated place">Lvov</span>. </sentence><sentence id="81">We came there. </sentence><sentence id="82">It was terrible way because we were going only really walking, running, and during the day time the <span class="spatial object">planes</span>, they are going low on the way and was killing people, he <span class="building">refuge</span>, the <span class="building">refuge</span> -- no, the refugees. </sentence><sentence id="83">Ok, so this what happened and <span class="populated place">Lvov</span>, when we were there a few days there came Russian and the German, they went back and they took the part of <span class="country">Poland</span> and half of part of the <span class="populated place">city</span> of <span class="populated place">Przemysl</span> where we were living. </sentence><sentence id="84">So the <span class="populated place">city</span> was divided by <span class="env feature">river San</span>. </sentence><sentence id="85">One side -- east -- was <span class="country">Russian</span>, and <span class="region">west</span> was German. </sentence><sentence id="86">So we can see each other. </sentence><sentence id="87">And I worked there in <span class="building">polyclinic</span>, but -- and during this time, when was Russian. </sentence><sentence id="88">My parents, they still were working in our place. </sentence><sentence id="89">And my brother, elder, was in <span class="building">hospital</span>. </sentence><sentence id="90">And the young-- younger brothers, they were working in the place to get some work because everyone supposed to working. </sentence><sentence id="91">And then started another war. </sentence><sentence id="92">And this was in June 22, 1941, the German attacked <span class="country">Russia</span>, and in a few hours later they were in our <span class="populated place">town</span> and other they came. </sentence><sentence id="93">So it was kills. </sentence><sentence id="94">There was -- after this, the Russian came back and they was fighting about the <span class="populated place">city</span> of <span class="populated place">Przemysl</span> one week, seven almost days. </sentence><sentence id="95">So, in the morning, there were Russian. </sentence><sentence id="96">At night, there were Germans. </sentence><sentence id="97">And every person was hiding deep, you know, in the <span class="interior space">cellars</span> and other, other places because we didn't know what to do. </sentence><sentence id="98">After seven days, the Russians got to go back, pulling back, and the Germans are coming. </sentence><sentence id="99">So we were -- we want-- wanted in the beginning to go with Russian, but they said they won't take us civil people. </sentence><sentence id="100">Only they was going by themselves. </sentence><sentence id="101">So we left there, and the Germans came. </sentence><sentence id="102">And after a few weeks -- this was 1941 -- they start to make orders, <span class="populated place">ghetto</span> Jewish -- segregate Jewish people. </sentence><sentence id="103">Everybody has to work -- arbeit." </sentence><sentence id="104">And start to be difficult life, but still we didn't know what. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="153">Q: How many of you were together? </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="155">A: In this time, we were four brothers together. </sentence><sentence id="156">My sister was still in <span class="populated place">Lvov</span>, in <span class="populated place">Lemberg</span>." </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="159">Q: Could you hold up the photograph of your family, please, so we can see it? </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class=""><p><sentence id="161">" Work (German). </sentence></p><p><sentence id="162"><span class="populated place">Lemberg</span> is the German name for <span class="populated place">Lvov</span>. </sentence></p></dialogue><dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="163">A: Yes. </sentence></p><p><sentence id="164"> TECHNICAL CONVERSATION </sentence></p></dialogue><dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="165">A: But I will explain who is who. </sentence><sentence id="166">So this is my father. </sentence><sentence id="167">This is my mother. </sentence><sentence id="168">This is my older brother, the physician. </sentence><sentence id="169">And this is my sister, and this is my younger brother, who were killed in the war -- like in <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>. </sentence><sentence id="170">They took them to <span class="populated place">concentration camp</span>. </sentence><sentence id="171">This is the mother-in-law of my youngest brother's wife. </sentence><sentence id="172">This is her mother and her father. </sentence><sentence id="173">They was together killed in 1942. </sentence><sentence id="174">Those taken to a <span class="populated place">concentration camp</span> from <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>. </sentence><sentence id="175">That's my close family. </sentence><sentence id="176">This is from <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>, when we were there. </sentence><sentence id="177">We were working. </sentence><sentence id="178">This is for my oldest brother, the physician. </sentence><sentence id="179">He worked in <span class="building">hospital</span>, and there was like a <span class="building">field hospital</span> in <span class="populated place">ghetto</span> -- small <span class="building">hospital</span>. </sentence><sentence id="180">He was working like a physician there, and this is his ID. </sentence><sentence id="181">And this was my ID. </sentence><sentence id="182">I was working with him there, the same, given in, in the <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="201">Q: Thank you. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="203">A: So in the beginning, when we were in <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>, we have to go. </sentence><sentence id="204">We were organized. </sentence><sentence id="205">Young people -- everybody has to go in the morning under the guard to do work. </sentence><sentence id="206">So I was working with my older brother. </sentence><sentence id="207">We have to -- they took us to a special place. </sentence><sentence id="208">We were loading coals in the <span class="spatial object">wagons</span> forward and back, under heavy guard, from morning until late evening. </sentence><sentence id="209">And nothing to eat. </sentence><sentence id="210">Only you have to work in there. </sentence><sentence id="211">If you have something with you -- a piece of bread, anything -- you could have. </sentence><sentence id="212">And we work very hard. </sentence><sentence id="213">Then -- this was like in 1941. </sentence><sentence id="214">Then in 1942, they start to take so- called Aktion" -- take people from the <span class="populated place">ghetto</span> and make smaller <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>. </sentence><sentence id="215">So they surround, for example, one part of <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>. </sentence><sentence id="216">And this part people couldn't live there. </sentence><sentence id="217">They have to go to the <span class="spatial object">wagon</span>, to the <span class="spatial object">train</span>, and they was taking them out. </sentence><sentence id="218">Nobody knows where they were sent. </sentence><sentence id="219">There's only -- they're taking us another place. </sentence><sentence id="220">They will have good life working, and this and this. </sentence><sentence id="221">So the people cannot say no because there was an order. </sentence><sentence id="222">So you have to stay. </sentence><sentence id="223">So this was in 1942. </sentence><sentence id="224">1941, they, they asked to get -- to give to them thousand young boys. </sentence><sentence id="225">But the <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>, the -- no. </sentence><sentence id="226">In <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>, the people who are partners like small government in <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>, they, they was taking time. </sentence><sentence id="227">They didn't like to give the young people. </sentence><sentence id="228">They wanted to have a list of young people. </sentence><sentence id="229">So this was going to 1942. </sentence><sentence id="230">And then in the beginning of 1942, they said, "Two thousand." </sentence><sentence id="231">And they came. </sentence><sentence id="232">They have at least -- they came to our <span class="building">home</span>, and they wanted to take me. </sentence><sentence id="233">But my younger brother, he was a little physical stronger, he said, "No, I will go." </sentence><sentence id="234">And they took him to the concentration labor-like camp in <span class="populated place">Lvov</span>. </sentence><sentence id="235">And this was the young boy who they later hanged. </sentence><sentence id="236">And they took him there. </sentence><sentence id="237">He, he voluntary -- he was going because he wanted to save my life. </sentence><sentence id="238">And I was still working with my, with my parents and, Murderous campaigns undertaken by the Nazis for political, racial, or eugenic ends (German). </sentence><sentence id="239"> and my brothers in <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>. </sentence><sentence id="240">We apparently didn't know about deaths, what's happened to my brother. </sentence><sentence id="241">But my wife how she told you, she was going over there. </sentence><sentence id="242">She was in contact with us. </sentence><sentence id="243">She help us. </sentence><sentence id="244">She was working with my mother and father in this small <span class="building">shop</span>. </sentence><sentence id="245">She was like our own sister, like a daughter. </sentence><sentence id="246">She was very attached to us. </sentence><sentence id="247">We were attached to her. </sentence><sentence id="248">But she was Aryan. </sentence><sentence id="249">She had no -- Catholic, so they didn't touch her. </sentence><sentence id="250">So she can go some. </sentence><sentence id="251">She was sneaking under the <span class="dlf">fences</span> in the <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>, and she brought something and this and this. </sentence><sentence id="252">We have contact. </sentence><sentence id="253">When they took my brother to <span class="populated place">Lvov</span>, she was going to see him, because she was a girl and she was Catholic. </sentence><sentence id="254">She could go close and see something. </sentence><sentence id="255">He can go to the <span class="dlf">fence</span> or something. </sentence><sentence id="256">She ask some watchman who are same day. </sentence><sentence id="257">Maybe they let her go to talk. </sentence><sentence id="258">So she was in contact with him. </sentence><sentence id="259">One thing she make arrangement with him, but she will break. </sentence><sentence id="260">He asked her that he wanted to run away and maybe she will hide him. </sentence><sentence id="261">So she has to bring him some clothes, this and this; and they make arrangement where, where he has to come to see her. </sentence><sentence id="262">And this time she came but they make special hours when she will meet him. </sentence><sentence id="263">But there was now going the <span class="spatial object">military trains</span>, and all kinds of <span class="spatial object">civil trains</span> were stopped. </sentence><sentence id="264">First, military. </sentence><sentence id="265">So it was a couple of hours, maybe two or three hours late she came, because the <span class="spatial object">trains</span> was - - she couldn't come. </sentence><sentence id="266">In meantime, he -- according to, to his agreement with her -- he left the, the <span class="populated place">camp</span>, and he saw a woman who was similar to my wife. </sentence><sentence id="267">He came to her. </sentence><sentence id="268">And then she was not this right person. </sentence><sentence id="269">So when he was turning back, he want to go back, some watchman, they find him. </sentence><sentence id="270">They saw him. </sentence><sentence id="271">Now they took him back to, to <span class="populated place">camp</span>. </sentence><sentence id="272">And when my wife came to see him, they told her it's too late. </sentence><sentence id="273">They hanged him. </sentence><sentence id="274">So she came very depressed. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="347">Q: Let's make something very clear. </sentence><sentence id="348">Slow down a minute, please. </sentence><sentence id="349">Relax. </sentence><sentence id="350">We have plenty of time. </sentence><sentence id="351">You are about 18? </sentence><sentence id="352">How old are you? </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="359">A: 24 at this time. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="361">Q: 24 at this point, all right. </sentence><sentence id="362">Your wife was 16, 17? </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="365">A: She was 17, yes. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="367">Q: All right. </sentence><sentence id="368">We need to make clear that she was obviously not yet your wife. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="371">A: No. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="373">Q: And that there was indeed -- because she was Catholic, you would have tended not to think in those directions. </sentence></p></dialogue><dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="374">A: No. </sentence><sentence id="375">She was only very, very attached to us. </sentence><sentence id="376">She was like a relative. </sentence><sentence id="377">We, we love her very much, and she love us very much. </sentence></p></dialogue><dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="378">Q: Let's talk now -- I want to talk about you. </sentence><sentence id="379">I don't want her story, or her side of it. </sentence><sentence id="380">I want your side of it, all right? </sentence><sentence id="381">Your brother has been has been taken, has been killed. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="386">A: Yes. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="388">Q: What did you do? </sentence><sentence id="389">Where were you at this point in time? </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="392">A: In <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>, in <span class="populated place">Przemysl</span>. </sentence><sentence id="393">And we got the message. </sentence><sentence id="394">We didn't tell the parents what was happened. </sentence><sentence id="395">To them, they didn't know about it. </sentence><sentence id="396">And we work. </sentence><sentence id="397">And then -- and this was July -- in August 1942. </sentence><sentence id="398">They make another <span class="populated place">ghetto</span> -- smaller -- another Aktion. </sentence><sentence id="399">They took our parents, and they took away. </sentence><sentence id="400">And I remember when they was concentration them in the place I was staying, and I was crying. </sentence><sentence id="401">And there was staying a young soldier. </sentence><sentence id="402">He asked me, "Why are you crying?" </sentence><sentence id="403">I said, "They are my parents!" </sentence><sentence id="404">He said, "You will never see them." </sentence><sentence id="405">I said, "They supposed to take them to, to a job to work." " </sentence><sentence id="406">They will murder," he said. " </sentence><sentence id="407">You will never see him -- them." </sentence><sentence id="408">If you want, you can bring them little tea or something to drink. </sentence><sentence id="409">But go fast." </sentence><sentence id="410">And I was running back to <span class="building">home</span>, and I prepare something for them, and I came. </sentence><sentence id="411">It was too late. </sentence><sentence id="412">I saw them already pushing to the <span class="spatial object">cattle wagon</span>, with sticks. </sentence><sentence id="413">They was pushing. </sentence><sentence id="414">And my father, he turns -- like my mother was turned down; and he looked and he saw me, and he said like this [gesturing father waving goodbye to Josef]. </sentence><sentence id="415">And this was the last thing what I saw. </sentence><sentence id="416">Then -- and there was in the meantime other Aktion. </sentence><sentence id="417">And we still working hard. </sentence><sentence id="418">And, and November 18, 1942, there was the Aktion. </sentence><sentence id="419">Right before the people, they was finding out that they were an Aktion. </sentence><sentence id="420">So they make under the <span class="interior space">kitchen</span> an <span class="interior space">apartment</span>. </sentence><sentence id="421">There was like an <span class="dlf">entrance</span> to <span class="interior space">cellar</span>, and we make like a <span class="interior space">bunker</span>. </sentence><sentence id="422">Was hiding <span class="dlf">entrance</span>, and we make like a <span class="building">bunker</span>. </sentence><sentence id="423">And we were sitting there. </sentence><sentence id="424">There was almost thirty people there, and we are sitting. </sentence><sentence id="425">And we went on November 17th at night there hiding. </sentence><sentence id="426">On November 18th, in the morning, start to be the Aktion. </sentence><sentence id="427">We heard noises, shooting, screaming. </sentence><sentence id="428">And barking dogs and everything. </sentence><sentence id="429">And we heard what's going on. </sentence><sentence id="430">Then, almost at the end, was almost probably before seven o'clock, after six, before seven o'clock in the evening, there was dark because the weather was snow, cold. </sentence><sentence id="431">And somebody pushed the <span class="dlf">window</span>, and they said it was covered with sack -- with straw. </sentence><sentence id="432">We didn't know about that. </sentence><sentence id="433">Because was called a sound from the people who were Ordnungs," the people who was helping the, the, the SS men. </sentence><sentence id="434">He pushed with a stick the, the, the sack with straw, and was a little light. </sentence><sentence id="435">Because we were sitting in dark, but still came a little light inside. </sentence><sentence id="436">He said, "If somebody's hiding there" -- he said this automatically -- "has to get out, because we will throw grenades insi-- inside." </sentence><sentence id="437">So there was a woman near the <span class="dlf">window</span> sitting. </sentence><sentence id="438">She pushed her daughter, and said, "Go. </sentence><sentence id="439">Save your life." </sentence><sentence id="440">She pushed her through the <span class="dlf">window</span>. </sentence><sentence id="441">4 Ordnungsdienst [Order Service] (German). </sentence><sentence id="442"> The daughter was maybe eight, nine years old. </sentence><sentence id="443">And she pushed her, and she start to scramble go through the <span class="dlf">window</span>. </sentence><sentence id="444">And suddenly, the SS man who was far away, they was almost finished the job. </sentence><sentence id="445">They turned back and saw the girl coming out, and this guy, he was helping her. </sentence><sentence id="446">They came back. </sentence><sentence id="447">And they start to beat her and kick her with feet in, in the face in front of <span class="dlf">entrance</span>. </sentence><sentence id="448">And then the mother start to scream. </sentence><sentence id="449">And they opened the <span class="dlf">doors</span>, and they said, "Out! </sentence><sentence id="450">Out! </sentence><sentence id="451">Out!" </sentence><sentence id="452">And there was standing a <span class="dlf">row</span> with soldiers and with policemen with rifles. </sentence><sentence id="453">And they throw us -- "<span class="env feature">Ground</span>! </sentence><sentence id="454"><span class="env feature">Ground</span>!" </sentence><sentence id="455">And was they hitting us with rifles. </sentence><sentence id="456">Who got down, they killed him on the spot. </sentence><sentence id="457">Who could run has to go another place. </sentence><sentence id="458">And they, they -- L, I, with my brother and my cousin, we were running. </sentence><sentence id="459">We got the full blows, but we survive. </sentence><sentence id="460">We came to the place they keep us together. </sentence><sentence id="461">And there came a sergeant, and he said, "Now, we will shoot you. </sentence><sentence id="462">Stay in a <span class="interior space">row</span>." </sentence><sentence id="463">And my older brother, who was saying to me, he said, "Aim your chest to the rifles. </sentence><sentence id="464">Because," he said, "They will hit you in the arm or in your ear. </sentence><sentence id="465">They will not shoot you twice. </sentence><sentence id="466">And they will put <span class="dlf">line</span> -- put you in a great big <span class="dlf">line</span>, and you will suffocate. </sentence><sentence id="467">So try to aim yourself," he said, "and stay." </sentence><sentence id="468">And we were staying in <span class="dlf">line</span>, and they with the rifles, they wanted to shoot us. </sentence><sentence id="469">Suddenly came an officer, an SS officer, and he's asking, "What's going on here?" </sentence><sentence id="470">They said, "No. </sentence><sentence id="471">We find they're hiding Jewish people. </sentence><sentence id="472">According to the order, they're supposed to voluntary come here. </sentence><sentence id="473">They didn't come, so we picked them up. </sentence><sentence id="474">And now we have to shoot them." </sentence><sentence id="475">He look on us. </sentence><sentence id="476">He said, "No. </sentence><sentence id="477">The <span class="spatial object">train</span> still is under the <span class="building">station</span>. </sentence><sentence id="478">We need fat Jewish people. </sentence><sentence id="479">We need there for some -- " He said like soap or something, I don't remember so. " </sentence><sentence id="480">Put them to the <span class="spatial object">train</span>." </sentence><sentence id="481">And he put us -- they put us to the <span class="spatial object">train</span>. </sentence><sentence id="482">There was in my <span class="spatial object">wagon</span> was over a hundred people like sardine together, you know. </sentence><sentence id="483">And was -- this was winter. </sentence><sentence id="484">But we were thirsty, dry mouth, dry tongue. </sentence><sentence id="485">high temperature. </sentence><sentence id="486">We was sitting, and we couldn't, we couldn't breathe. </sentence><sentence id="487">And they locked the <span class="dlf">door</span>. </sentence><sentence id="488">There was <span class="dlf">barbed wires</span> on the small <span class="dlf">window</span>. </sentence><sentence id="489">And the <span class="spatial object">train</span> start to move. </sentence><sentence id="490">And one man, he hang himself in the <span class="spatial object">train</span> in the <span class="dlf">belt</span>, and they tried to cut him off, and they cut him off and he was angry. </sentence><sentence id="491">He said, "No. </sentence><sentence id="492">I will not go for -- so you will have to... No! </sentence><sentence id="493">Don't! </sentence><sentence id="494">No!" </sentence><sentence id="495">He was screaming. </sentence><sentence id="496">He hanged himself. </sentence><sentence id="497">And I was going, I said to my brother, "No, I will not go there. </sentence><sentence id="498">I will commit suicide. </sentence><sentence id="499">I will not go." </sentence><sentence id="500">He said, "Don't do this. </sentence><sentence id="501">Don't." </sentence><sentence id="502">I said, "No, I will never go." </sentence><sentence id="503">And I was going little by little, they helped me came to the <span class="dlf">window</span>. </sentence><sentence id="504">And I don't know how I find in my pocket pliers. </sentence><sentence id="505">I have this small pliers. </sentence><sentence id="506">And I start to break the <span class="dlf">barbed wires</span>. </sentence><sentence id="507">I was working a long time, and I cut my hands, was bleeding. </sentence><sentence id="508">And I broke the <span class="dlf">wires</span>. </sentence><sentence id="509">When I was in <span class="building">bunker</span>, I had a loaf of round bread. </sentence><sentence id="510">And I saved them. </sentence><sentence id="511">They was taking us, I took the bread. </sentence><sentence id="512">Here I had little <span class="dlf">belt</span>. </sentence><sentence id="513">And when I broke the <span class="dlf">wire</span>, I said, "Push me through the <span class="dlf">window</span>. </sentence><sentence id="514">I will jump." </sentence><sentence id="515">And the people start to push me and my head forward. </sentence><sentence id="516">Was tight, but when I was looking down, I was on the running, you know, the wheels <span class="spatial object">train</span>. </sentence><sentence id="517">And then I saw the <span class="dlf">tracks</span> and the small stones, like gravels. </sentence><sentence id="518">Everything. </sentence><sentence id="519">I said, "No. </sentence><sentence id="520">I will not go with my head, because I will -- right to the <span class="spatial object">wheels</span>." </sentence><sentence id="521">It was like instant. </sentence><sentence id="522">One second, I wanted to commit suicide. </sentence><sentence id="523">Another second -- like instant -- I said, "Put me back! </sentence><sentence id="524">Put me back!" </sentence><sentence id="525">They, they pull me back, and I said, "I will go with my legs forward." </sentence><sentence id="526">And they pushed me with my legs, and I was hanging on the left hand. </sentence><sentence id="527">I was holding the <span class="dlf">window</span> outside. </sentence><sentence id="528">I was hanging, and the <span class="spatial object">train</span> was in good speed. </sentence><sentence id="529">When the <span class="spatial object">train</span> was taking a <span class="dlf">curve</span>, I jumped forward and I was sliding. </sentence><sentence id="530">And suddenly I felt severe pain in my chest, and I was unconscious maybe a few minutes. </sentence><sentence id="531">I don't know how long. </sentence><sentence id="532">Then when I came to my normal condition, I saw in my breast there was a <span class="dlf">hole</span> like a fist. </sentence><sentence id="533">And this hurt my chest, because I stopped on a small <span class="dlf">post</span> with wires. </sentence><sentence id="534">There were some <span class="dlf">wires</span>. </sentence><sentence id="535">And I came out, and the <span class="spatial object">train</span> was far away, and I was running up the <span class="spatial object">train</span>. </sentence><sentence id="536">The <span class="spatial object">train</span> -- there was snow, and I was looking where would I find my brother. </sentence><sentence id="537">No, but I find two other boys who jumped. </sentence><sentence id="538">One has broken here bone, clavicula (ph) bone, broken. </sentence><sentence id="539">One was moving. </sentence><sentence id="540">Another, his face scratched, but nothing special. </sentence><sentence id="541">So I helped. </sentence><sentence id="542">I took the, the <span class="dlf">belt</span>. </sentence><sentence id="543">I put like here [showing that he tied the arm to the man's side], to, to keep the hands not moving. </sentence><sentence id="544">And I said, "We have to run away." </sentence><sentence id="545">So we are going under the <span class="dlf">hill</span> just like small way. </sentence><sentence id="546">There was snow. </sentence><sentence id="547">And we were going to the place that was called <span class="populated place">Lipowice</span>. </sentence><sentence id="548">Was after <span class="populated place">Przemysl</span> maybe seven kilometers, maybe more. </sentence><sentence id="549">And I went there, and I told them, "I have here a man." </sentence><sentence id="550">And normal, in wintertime of skiing, and I was coming to him to buy tea or coffee or some cookies. </sentence><sentence id="551">And I said, "I will go to him. </sentence><sentence id="552">Maybe he will give us <span class="building">shelter</span> for one night. </sentence><sentence id="553">But then he will think in the morning what he have to do." </sentence><sentence id="554">And I went to him, and I knocked on the <span class="dlf">window</span>. </sentence><sentence id="555">He opened, and I told him who I am. </sentence><sentence id="556">He was a nice man. </sentence><sentence id="557">He was scared, very, because he knows what happens. " </sentence><sentence id="558">Nobody has seen you?" </sentence><sentence id="559">I said, "No, no." </sentence><sentence id="560">And he gives us the <span class="building">shelter</span>. </sentence><sentence id="561">We were sitting on the <span class="spatial object">bench</span> all night. </sentence><sentence id="562">And he give some to drink, you know, coffee or anything. </sentence><sentence id="563">People drink only water, because we have very high temperature, very. </sentence><sentence id="564">Then in the morning we said goodbye. </sentence><sentence id="565">And we said to each other, "Everybody's going in different way. </sentence><sentence id="566">They will not catch us together. </sentence><sentence id="567">Only separate way." </sentence><sentence id="568">As a matter of fact, after war I met them. </sentence><sentence id="569">They survive. </sentence><sentence id="570">So I went to my friend, who was working in <span class="building">hospital</span>. </sentence><sentence id="571">And I went to him. </sentence><sentence id="572">I was holding my loaf, bread loaf, under my arm, and I was looking like a working man who's going to work. </sentence><sentence id="573">And when I came to him, he was scared. </sentence><sentence id="574">I told him what's happened, and he said, "Ok, I will try to do the best for you." </sentence><sentence id="575">And he was keeping me in a small <span class="building">cottage</span>, which was his mother's <span class="building">cottage</span>, but she was not in this time at <span class="building">home</span>. </sentence><sentence id="576">So he said, "Stay here." </sentence><sentence id="577">He locked me inside. </sentence><sentence id="578">And I was there all day, and I didn't know what to do. </sentence><sentence id="579">And I was..."Maybe I can trust him, maybe no. </sentence><sentence id="580">Maybe he can go to <span class="building">Gestapo</span> or something, and this will be the end." </sentence><sentence id="581">But on the evening, he came. </sentence><sentence id="582">Was about eight o'clock. </sentence><sentence id="583">He said, "Joe, I am sorry. </sentence><sentence id="584">I was going around. </sentence><sentence id="585">I cannot find place for you. </sentence><sentence id="586">I cannot keep you, because my wife she is scared. </sentence><sentence id="587">We cannot risk our lives. </sentence><sentence id="588">So what you want to do? </sentence><sentence id="589">Tell me. </sentence><sentence id="590">I will bring you in any place." </sentence><sentence id="591">He worked in <span class="building">hospital</span>, and he had those <span class="spatial object">carriage</span> with two horses. </sentence><sentence id="592">Always he could travel, because he can ride this. </sentence><sentence id="593">So there was -- on the other side of the <span class="populated place">Przemysl</span> there was a <span class="dlf">bridge</span>. </sentence><sentence id="594">So to go to the <span class="populated place">town</span> where I was living before, we have to cross the <span class="dlf">bridge</span>. </sentence><sentence id="595">But on the <span class="dlf">bridge</span>, there was always watchmen, German. </sentence><sentence id="596"> They were watching who was crossing; they were looking inside you're not smuggling something. </sentence><sentence id="597">So he said, "I will risk my life and your life. </sentence><sentence id="598">But you have to lie down under my feet. </sentence><sentence id="599">I will cover you with a blanket. </sentence><sentence id="600">I will keep my feet on your face. </sentence><sentence id="601">And I have the <span class="dlf">pass</span>, so I will try to go. </sentence><sentence id="602">But don't move. </sentence><sentence id="603">We will see. </sentence><sentence id="604">Maybe we'll be lucky." </sentence><sentence id="605">And really, we went there. </sentence><sentence id="606">They stopped him. </sentence><sentence id="607">But they know him, and he's showed them the <span class="dlf">pass</span>. </sentence><sentence id="608">They was looking inside, but they didn't look too much. </sentence><sentence id="609">He was holding the feet on my back. </sentence><sentence id="610">And we passed. </sentence><sentence id="611">So they came <span class="populated place">downtown</span>, close to my <span class="dlf">street</span> that I was living. </sentence><sentence id="612">He said, "Joe, good luck. </sentence><sentence id="613">That's it. </sentence><sentence id="614">And do what you want." </sentence><sentence id="615">I said thank you, and he left. </sentence><sentence id="616">So I didn't know where to go. </sentence><sentence id="617">I went back to the place where we were living before. </sentence><sentence id="618">And I went to <span class="interior space">cellar</span>. </sentence><sentence id="619">There was not <span class="interior space">basement</span>, only <span class="interior space">cellar</span> -- open <span class="interior space">cellars</span>. </sentence><sentence id="620">And I was sitting there, and, and I saw this is not realistic because the people who maybe who lives there know who was living there, they can come back to <span class="interior space">cellar</span>. </sentence><sentence id="621">They will see me. </sentence><sentence id="622">There was <span class="interior space">open space</span>. </sentence><sentence id="623">And there's -- in fact there were rats and mice and <span class="env feature">dirt</span>. </sentence><sentence id="624">So I said, "Maybe Stefania, maybe she will let me stay for one night." </sentence><sentence id="625">And I went <span class="interior space">upstairs</span>, and I was knocking at her <span class="dlf">door</span>. </sentence><sentence id="626">And she -- first she asked me, I told her quietly, "It's me." </sentence><sentence id="627">And she opened the <span class="dlf">door</span>, and she saw me. </sentence><sentence id="628">Now, I was really in very bad condition. </sentence><sentence id="629">And she was very mercy to me with her really soft heart. </sentence><sentence id="630">She was most caring. </sentence><sentence id="631">She helped me to wash and this -- and she gave me her <span class="spatial object">bed</span> to sleep. </sentence><sentence id="632">And her sister, she was wondering what's going on. </sentence><sentence id="633">Because she saw me first, little sister. </sentence><sentence id="634">And she explained her how this, anyway. </sentence><sentence id="635">And the morning, she put me under the <span class="spatial object">bed</span>; and on the front of me, she put a sack with potatoes. </sentence><sentence id="636">She had a sack of potatoes there. </sentence><sentence id="637">So I was behind the sack of the potatoes, and she covered me blanket. </sentence><sentence id="638">She said, "Don't make noise, because the people are coming -- friends and this -- and they cannot see you." </sentence><sentence id="639">So this was for a few days. </sentence><sentence id="640">Then she went to my brother. </sentence><sentence id="641">He worked in, in a <span class="dlf">farm</span> which was under supervision of military, belonged to the military, and they -- all brothers was going through the military. </sentence><sentence id="642">So my brother was working there with his fiancee. </sentence><sentence id="643">And when was the Aktion in the <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>, they hold the people there because they know they will go back to <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>, and they will take them. </sentence><sentence id="644">The, the -- no, the SS will take them. </sentence><sentence id="645">But they wanted to save them, because they needed them for work. </sentence><sentence id="646">So they told them stay this night and one day more here. </sentence><sentence id="647">They were sleeping there. </sentence><sentence id="648">So my wife, she came. </sentence><sentence id="649">She told him what's happened, and she told him that I survive. </sentence><sentence id="650">I came, and I'm at her <span class="building">home</span>. </sentence><sentence id="651">He was very happy. </sentence><sentence id="652">And he was crying, also, because we lost the rest of the family. </sentence><sentence id="653">And then his wife, and they was taking them back to <span class="populated place">ghetto</span> under guard -- I don't know how -- she run away. </sentence><sentence id="654">And she came to us to <span class="building">home</span>...to...to my wife's, where I was hiding temporary. </sentence><sentence id="655">No, she said, no, she will not go to <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>. </sentence><sentence id="656">She doesn't like to go. </sentence><sentence id="657">I didn't like to either go to <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>, but my brother, he went back to <span class="populated place">ghetto</span> with the group. </sentence><sentence id="658">And then he came there. </sentence><sentence id="659">He start to contact with us. </sentence><sentence id="660">And then he told us in the <span class="populated place">ghetto</span> now is quiet, temporarily is quiet. " </sentence><sentence id="661">Nothing there, nothing. </sentence><sentence id="662">No Aktion. </sentence><sentence id="663">So you maybe you'll come back." </sentence><sentence id="664">After a few days, we went back to <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="938">Q: What was the <span class="populated place">ghetto</span> like at that time? </sentence></p></dialogue><dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="939">A: This was no -- there were a few <span class="dlf">streets</span> they surrounded with <span class="dlf">fences</span>. </sentence><sentence id="940">And there was watch, like police. </sentence><sentence id="941">Police watch-- watching men, Polish, and there was German. </sentence><sentence id="942">Was the stationary because when it was Aktion, it came special group--SS or special military group who was taking the Aktion then or doing this. </sentence><sentence id="943">But when this other, they left to the domestic people to take care about the <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>. </sentence><sentence id="944">That the people cannot get out, that cannot go in. </sentence><sentence id="945">But my wife's little sister. </sentence><sentence id="946">She was going, playing and she was the messenger. </sentence><sentence id="947">She was bringing some message. </sentence><sentence id="948">We wanted something. </sentence><sentence id="949">We asked her. </sentence><sentence id="950">She would prepare in, in the evening. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class=""><p><sentence id="963">Always I was under the <span class="dlf">fence</span> sneaking through the <span class="populated place">town</span> and I was coming and I took her to pick up something. </sentence><sentence id="964">No. </sentence><sentence id="965">In the meantime, my brother, he got typhus and his friend got typhus. </sentence><sentence id="966">That was terrible thing, but we need something to -- there was no medicine. </sentence><sentence id="967">Nothing but something to, to keep them strong, to fight the temperature. </sentence><sentence id="968">So my wife, she prepared a sugar or milk or some cheese, butter -- something. </sentence><sentence id="969">And I smuggled this back to <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>. </sentence><sentence id="970">Some drugs like painkiller drugs, you know, against high fever. </sentence><sentence id="971">This was, she could get without a, a prescription. </sentence><sentence id="972">So, like aspirin, you know -- such things like that. </sentence><sentence id="973">So kids, they survive, thanks God. </sentence><sentence id="974">But one time -- I have to tell this story. </sentence><sentence id="975">I was going from <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>, and, and my watch was 8:30. </sentence><sentence id="976">But the, the curfew was until 9:00. </sentence><sentence id="977">After 9:00, they can catch anybody on the, on the <span class="dlf">street</span>. </sentence><sentence id="978">They can kill without asking if you have no permission to go on the <span class="dlf">pavement</span>. </sentence><sentence id="979">And I had always dressed similar to the dress like the young <span class="populated place">Hitlerjugend</span>,deg they were wear. </sentence><sentence id="980">Those high shoes, short tight black pants, and nice coat and a nice hat with a, with a -- with the, with a -- like a, no, like a shaving thing, you know? </sentence><sentence id="981">Like a feather, yes. </sentence><sentence id="982">And I was going always dressed in this. </sentence><sentence id="983">But this time I had an <span class="spatial object">attache case</span>, because I was going to my way to pick up some food and my watch. </sentence><sentence id="984">And I changed my dress from my old dress to this dress. </sentence><sentence id="985">I forget to put this -- I'll show you this false document. </sentence><sentence id="986">And I'm going... There was a <span class="dlf">bridge</span> from the <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>, which was going to the <span class="populated place">town</span>, but the, the <span class="dlf">bridge</span> was going from <span class="dlf">street</span> to the <span class="building">factory</span> which there was fixing broken <span class="spatial object">cars</span>, <span class="spatial object">trains</span> and everything. </sentence><sentence id="987">So -- but on the side was entrance to <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>, but this was blocked by <span class="dlf">barbed wires</span>. </sentence><sentence id="988">And was like a <span class="dlf">road</span> that you cannot go to <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>. </sentence><sentence id="989">But always I was going through the <span class="dlf">holes</span>, and I was going to the <span class="dlf">bridge</span> down to the <span class="populated place">town</span>. </sentence><sentence id="990">And when I was going <span class="interior space">downstairs</span> to the <span class="populated place">town</span> already, suddenly a flashlight went to my face. " </sentence><sentence id="991">Oh," I said. </sentence><sentence id="992">"That's it!" </sentence><sentence id="993">And in German language, somebody said, "Hande hoch!"" </sentence><sentence id="994">I put my "Hande hoch," and the <span class="spatial object">attache case</span> fell down. </sentence><sentence id="995">So he came close. </sentence><sentence id="996">And I said, "No, this is <span class="building">German police</span>. </sentence><sentence id="997">That's it! </sentence><sentence id="998">They will finish me." </sentence><sentence id="999">But I said why. </sentence><sentence id="1000">And then came this Polish policeman. </sentence><sentence id="1001">He was speaking German. </sentence><sentence id="1002">He asked me, "Who are you? </sentence><sentence id="1003">Where are you going?" </sentence><sentence id="1004">I said, "No, I will not tell him that I am come from <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>." </sentence><sentence id="1005">I said, "I am going from the <span class="building">factory</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1006">I worked for my father." </sentence><sentence id="1007">I said, "Dinner -- lunch. </sentence><sentence id="1008">And I -- dinner -- and I am going back from <span class="building">factory</span> > Hitler Youth (German).6 "Hands up!" ( </sentence><sentence id="1009">German). </sentence><sentence id="1010"> <span class="building">home</span>." " </sentence><sentence id="1011">Give me your documents." </sentence><sentence id="1012">And I am looking in pocket, and I don't have my -- they called the ID card was Kennkarte" in German, ID card. </sentence><sentence id="1013">I was looking. </sentence><sentence id="1014">I said, "I am sorry. </sentence><sentence id="1015">I don't have in this dress. </sentence><sentence id="1016">But if you like to come with me to the <span class="building">factory</span>, there everybody knows me and, and they will tell you who Iam." </sentence><sentence id="1017">And I told, "I will go with you back." </sentence><sentence id="1018">Then we will be close to the <span class="dlf">entrance</span> to the <span class="dlf">block</span>, entrance to the <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1019">I will give him a blow, and I will jump to <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1020">But he was smart. </sentence><sentence id="1021">He said, "No, no. </sentence><sentence id="1022">No way! </sentence><sentence id="1023">No way!" </sentence><sentence id="1024">I said, "Why?" </sentence><sentence id="1025">He said, "Maybe you are a spy." </sentence><sentence id="1026">I said, "What kind of spy? </sentence><sentence id="1027">You are a Polish man, and I am a Polish man. </sentence><sentence id="1028">And I am a spy for whom? </sentence><sentence id="1029">I am spying for <span class="country">Germany</span>?" </sentence><sentence id="1030">He was working for <span class="country">Germany</span>. " </sentence><sentence id="1031">I'm not spying for <span class="country">Germany</span>." </sentence><sentence id="1032">He said, "Don't touch me." </sentence><sentence id="1033">He start to swear to me: "You such -- out. </sentence><sentence id="1034">And you, we're going to <span class="building">Gestapo</span>." </sentence><sentence id="1035">And I know if he will go with me, and this is -- he said, "You know, it is 9:30." </sentence><sentence id="1036">And I show him my watch, was 8:30. </sentence><sentence id="1037">He said, "Throw your watch under the running <span class="spatial object">train</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1038">This is 9:30." </sentence><sentence id="1039">My watch was not working. </sentence><sentence id="1040">And I was late. </sentence><sentence id="1041">After curfew, curfew. </sentence><sentence id="1042">So he said, "We are going to <span class="building">Gestapo</span>." </sentence><sentence id="1043">And like this, and I know if he will go on the <span class="dlf">street</span> at night with this -- with me, the German, you know, police, they are going also patrols. </sentence><sentence id="1044">And they will see him holding. </sentence><sentence id="1045">They will take me from him, and they will kill me on the spot. </sentence><sentence id="1046">So I, I know the psychology of the Polish people. </sentence><sentence id="1047">I start to talk him: "Hey, you are a tall guy and I am a little short man. </sentence><sentence id="1048">And you are holding me under gun. </sentence><sentence id="1049">What you think, that I will kill you or I will run away?You're supposed to be ashamed! </sentence><sentence id="1050">You're a coward." </sentence><sentence id="1051">Like this. </sentence><sentence id="1052">And he said to me, "You don't --" I said, "You're a coward." </sentence><sentence id="1053">So he put his gun here, the rifle. </sentence><sentence id="1054">He walked with me like this, and we start to talk Polish. </sentence><sentence id="1055">I talk to him Polish. </sentence><sentence id="1056">So, really, there was going a German patrol, but they look on us and they didn't touch. </sentence><sentence id="1057">Because he was a policeman, and I was talking to him Polish. </sentence><sentence id="1058">He was talking to me Polish. </sentence><sentence id="1059">They didn't understand what we were talking about. </sentence><sentence id="1060">So they thought maybe I'm also a, a secret police. </sentence><sentence id="1061">So I am going with him. </sentence><sentence id="1062">So one thing passed away behind me, and then we are going, there was a <span class="dlf">street</span> up. </sentence><sentence id="1063">And I see from far away, like maybe two hundred yards, a small light. </sentence><sentence id="1064">And there stand a watchman as the Gestapo watchman. </sentence><sentence id="1065">That's the <span class="building">Gestapo office</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1066">I said, "This is the end!" </sentence><sentence id="1067">And I talked to him. </sentence><sentence id="1068">No, no, no. </sentence><sentence id="1069">He is taking me there. </sentence><sentence id="1070">I said, "Listen, if I am a partisan, you know, they are watching you. </sentence><sentence id="1071">Your whole family will be killed, and you will be killed. </sentence><sentence id="1072">They will put in fire your <span class="building">house</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1073">You will not survive." </sentence><sentence id="1074">I said, "I don't care. </sentence><sentence id="1075">They will kill me, but you will -- " He said, "I don't care. </sentence><sentence id="1076">Now this is wartime, and this is my duty." </sentence><sentence id="1077">And sudden, I don't know, came to my mind something. </sentence><sentence id="1078">And I hit him with my right hand. </sentence><sentence id="1079">He was taller than me. </sentence><sentence id="1080">I hit him once right, and then upper cut his left. </sentence><sentence id="1081">He fell down like a piece of wood. </sentence><sentence id="1082">I felt I have such power because this was death -- life or death. </sentence><sentence id="1083">And I was so angry. </sentence><sentence id="1084">I was said to him, "You dirty pig! </sentence><sentence id="1085">You will get what you deserve! </sentence><sentence id="1086">I could kill you right now," I said, "but I will not do this. </sentence><sentence id="1087">I will not make my hands dirty." </sentence><sentence id="1088">And I turn around and I was going on the <span class="dlf">hill</span> TID card (German). </sentence><sentence id="1089"> the <span class="dlf">street</span> down. </sentence><sentence id="1090">I was not running. </sentence><sentence id="1091">And then, in the last minute, I start to run away. </sentence><sentence id="1092">And I came to my wife at night. </sentence><sentence id="1093">I was out after 10:00, and she was, "What's happen?" </sentence><sentence id="1094">And I told her the story. </sentence><sentence id="1095">And I was all night staying there. </sentence><sentence id="1096">And next morning, I told her, "Go look on the <span class="dlf">street</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1097">Watch what's happen." </sentence><sentence id="1098">She went. </sentence><sentence id="1099">She came, said, "Nothing. </sentence><sentence id="1100">No nothing, and nobody." </sentence><sentence id="1101">I don't know. </sentence><sentence id="1102">You know, quiet. </sentence><sentence id="1103">And in the evening, I was going back to <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1104">And when I was jumping through the <span class="dlf">bridge</span>, I heard shooting -- [Imitating shooting sound].And I went myself, and then I saw, look what's happen. </sentence><sentence id="1105">There are another like SS man or maybe not SS man, but he was a secret police. </sentence><sentence id="1106">There was lying a woman he took from the <span class="spatial object">train</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1107">A woman, he was taking off her shoes. </sentence><sentence id="1108">She was still alive, and he was taking off her shoes. </sentence><sentence id="1109">He killed her because he felt she was a Jewish person. </sentence><sentence id="1110">They found her. </sentence><sentence id="1111">Anyway, I went to <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1112">And I came to there, and I was there for a while. </sentence><sentence id="1113">Then her sister always was with her and counting, and I came back. </sentence><sentence id="1114">I talked to my wife was yet to find a place to hide, because in this place we cannot stay. </sentence><sentence id="1115">I said, "I have to come with my brother, with his fiancee, and my friend and his daughter. </sentence><sentence id="1116">Would be about five to seven people." </sentence><sentence id="1117">And so we organized. </sentence><sentence id="1118">She's under -- "The beginning," she said, "it will be very hard." </sentence><sentence id="1119">So I said, "Listen. </sentence><sentence id="1120">We have to do this." </sentence><sentence id="1121">So she was looking, and she find on the <span class="env feature">hill</span> is like a side <span class="dlf">street</span> on the border of the <span class="populated place">town</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1122">The name of <span class="dlf">Tatarska (ph) Street</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1123">And this was like a nice small <span class="building">cottage</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1124">And I came with her once there before she made the arrangement. </sentence><sentence id="1125">And I said, "This is perfect for this purpose." </sentence><sentence id="1126">So she make the whole thing legal. </sentence><sentence id="1127">She says she make -- she get the papers. </sentence><sentence id="1128">And when she moved there, I came there with my friend. </sentence><sentence id="1129">And first we were looking around; and I think, "We have to make a <span class="building">bunker</span>." </sentence><sentence id="1130">So under her <span class="spatial object">bed</span>, I cut a piece of <span class="interior space">floor</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1131">We start to digging <span class="dlf">hole</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1132">We were digging, and she was taking in the evening in a <span class="spatial object">sack</span> this <span class="env feature">ground</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1133">And there was some <span class="env feature">trees</span>, and between them she was putting the, the, you know, the <span class="env feature">soil</span>, so nobody would see the <span class="env feature">soil</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1134">And we make such in that two could stay there. </sentence><sentence id="1135">The <span class="interior space">attic</span> was too open. </sentence><sentence id="1136">And there was like a ladder from the <span class="dlf">hole</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1137">There was a <span class="dlf">hole</span> between <span class="interior space">attic</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1138">So I was thinking, "Later." </sentence><sentence id="1139">But for first thing, I said, "Instead of sit in the open <span class="interior space">attic</span>, maybe we will be there." </sentence><sentence id="1140">But then came the father of, the father of the girl, and, and came another, my friend. </sentence><sentence id="1141">So was a little more people. </sentence><sentence id="1142">And I...I don't know what to do. </sentence><sentence id="1143">I said, "Now we have to go <span class="interior space">upstairs</span> because we cannot be in the <span class="dlf">hole</span>." </sentence><sentence id="1144">So we are, we are sitting in the open <span class="interior space">attic</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1145">And then I told to my wife, "Look, maybe we will find an old wood, something that we can call and make a first <span class="dlf">row</span> similar to this round wood." </sentence><sentence id="1146">This would be nothing new. </sentence><sentence id="1147">And I said, "We will make a false <span class="dlf">wall</span>, do something." </sentence><sentence id="1148">Was very difficult. </sentence><sentence id="1149">She was running around many places, and then she find somebody. </sentence><sentence id="1150">And they brought her this, and she said she like to have this for wintertime for, for fire. </sentence><sentence id="1151">So they left this. </sentence><sentence id="1152">And she brought this little by little inside. </sentence><sentence id="1153">The neighbors was asking, "What?" </sentence><sentence id="1154">She said, "No, for I like to cut this and cut for wintertime." </sentence><sentence id="1155">So was not for -- not I wanted. </sentence><sentence id="1156">Then when she brought the -- we measured everything. </sentence><sentence id="1157">We cut it by little and we make numbers that everything will fit. </sentence><sentence id="1158">Then we have to nail this. </sentence><sentence id="1159">There will be noise. </sentence><sentence id="1160">So I advised my wife make washing, laundry -- everything. </sentence><sentence id="1161">And ask them if they have ropes and nails, that you will put them in <span class="interior space">attic</span>, you will hang them and they will dry. </sentence><sentence id="1162">The, the, you know, the washed <span class="spatial object">laundry</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1163">So that. </sentence><sentence id="1164">So they did, and this time, instead of putting nails and put, you know, the ropes, we know they, they were fast. </sentence><sentence id="1165">Then we put a little also outside, and if you put everything there, there will be not now, they will be exact like is dirt and, and from the spiders. </sentence><sentence id="1166">The -- took from our place they put another place. </sentence><sentence id="1167">Was look exactly like old thing. </sentence><sentence id="1168">And this the, the <span class="interior space">attic</span> was shut in maybe like two <span class="dlf">yards</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1169">I make sure of it. </sentence><sentence id="1170">And I make, make the <span class="dlf">roof</span> was going on an angle, so I make a small <span class="dlf">door</span>, so that I can every time open, watch and close right away if somebody will come. </sentence><sentence id="1171">And I was this what I have my curved spine. </sentence><sentence id="1172">And that's because almost two weeks I was laying like this, because I was watching always if somebody not come. </sentence><sentence id="1173">And it's hard to know. </sentence><sentence id="1174">We were there. </sentence><sentence id="1175">It was very fine. </sentence><sentence id="1176">And then the people that come, little by little, from ghetto-- then my brother and his wife, they came, the last ones. </sentence><sentence id="1177">But so other people, they came little by little. </sentence><sentence id="1178">There was story how they were coming. </sentence><sentence id="1179">But my wife, I think she thought about it. </sentence><sentence id="1180">So anyway, we were all 13 there.. Now we have to organize food and organize the regime control that we do not do something which can be dangerous to our life. </sentence><sentence id="1181">So I make like the [indecipherable]. </sentence><sentence id="1182">Every two hours somebody sitting watching. </sentence><sentence id="1183">They will be not snoring at night. </sentence><sentence id="1184">So we have a stick with a rabbit, this was from a rabbit like with the tail. </sentence><sentence id="1185">And I told them if somebody was snoring, you go to your nose to wake up. </sentence><sentence id="1186">But don't make noise. </sentence><sentence id="1187">Because you have to be, perhaps somebody will wake you up and try to sleep on the stomach. </sentence><sentence id="1188">Everybody on the stomach, not on the back because you will snore. </sentence><sentence id="1189">That was dangerous, number one. </sentence><sentence id="1190">Number two, no smoking. </sentence><sentence id="1191">The people, they want to smoke. </sentence><sentence id="1192">They were smoking anything. </sentence><sentence id="1193">I said, "No smoking, because the, the smoke will go to the place within the, the <span class="dlf">wall</span>, or they can see at night light through, or can be a fire. </sentence><sentence id="1194">We don't need this." </sentence><sentence id="1195">So there was really a fight to convince the people that this is tragedy. </sentence><sentence id="1196">This is not for us. </sentence><sentence id="1197">Then one, the woman who came with her two children, she got typhus there. </sentence><sentence id="1198">And she, she was infected in <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>, but after a few days, after a week, the typhus develop. </sentence><sentence id="1199">And she had high fever, temperature. </sentence><sentence id="1200">She was talking. </sentence><sentence id="1201">So I was the one who was taking care of her. </sentence><sentence id="1202">I said nobody could come close to her. </sentence><sentence id="1203">So it was really tough, because there was not too much <span class="interior space">space</span>, but she was -- I was watching her. </sentence><sentence id="1204">I shave her hair, and I said to my wife, "Do anything what you wanted to get something." </sentence><sentence id="1205">Because after experience with my brother in <span class="populated place">ghetto</span>, to keep her going. </sentence><sentence id="1206">And she was trying to buy for her sugar and something, and aspirin and this and this. </sentence><sentence id="1207">And anyway, I, I make also a prescription for heart, you know, some medicine to keep, make the heart going. </sentence><sentence id="1208">And she went to <span class="building">pharmacy</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1209">And I said, "Maybe, we ok. </sentence><sentence id="1210">Maybe, no." </sentence><sentence id="1211">And she made it. . </sentence><sentence id="1212">I don't know how. </sentence><sentence id="1213">She got started. </sentence><sentence id="1214">It was another story, but a lot -- she made it, she got it, she came. </sentence><sentence id="1215">Anyway, the children were prepared if she, God forbidding, passed away, that we in the <span class="dlf">hole</span> will make a, we will make a <span class="dlf">hole</span>, a <span class="dlf">grave</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1216">We will put her temporary there. </sentence><sentence id="1217">Because we had to be prepared for everything, I told them. </sentence><sentence id="1218">But anyway, she survived, was Ok. </sentence><sentence id="1219">Then I convinced the people stop smoking, and about snoring. </sentence><sentence id="1220">Then was problem with, with food, because this woman she wanted special, special food all the time. </sentence><sentence id="1221">But something was very difficult to get. </sentence><sentence id="1222">This was not so easy. </sentence><sentence id="1223">Was tough time. </sentence><sentence id="1224">But we were sitting. </sentence><sentence id="1225">Was many, many stories, like my wife told you. </sentence><sentence id="1226">They came, they gave her two hours to move out. </sentence><sentence id="1227">We asked her to run away, to save her life and her sister. " </sentence><sentence id="1228">No," she said no. </sentence><sentence id="1229">And she was staying, and she survived. </sentence><sentence id="1230">Then came the German. </sentence><sentence id="1231">They came, they have two nurses -- there were two nurse and their two boyfriends. </sentence><sentence id="1232">And they was almost everyday sleeping there. </sentence><sentence id="1233">So we were above them. </sentence><sentence id="1234">And sometimes there was little noise, because they can hear. </sentence><sentence id="1235">And I was feeling that this is very dangerous. </sentence><sentence id="1236">They are there. </sentence><sentence id="1237">And one time, like my wife told, they came. </sentence><sentence id="1238">They was holding my wife, and one nurse also was with them and one was running. </sentence><sentence id="1239">There was like not <span class="dlf">stairs</span>, only there was like no... </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="1524">A: <span class="spatial object">Ladder</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1525">And...and no -- you can hear the noise if somebody stepping on the -- so I was hearing something. </sentence><sentence id="1526">And I closed the <span class="dlf">door</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1527">And suddenly came one of the nurse. </sentence><sentence id="1528">She was looking around, going around looking, not quiet. </sentence><sentence id="1529">Was the last moment. </sentence><sentence id="1530">And she went down, and she told them no. </sentence><sentence id="1531">So my wife, she saw what's going on. </sentence><sentence id="1532">Then she bought chicken, and she was holding the chicken in, in the <span class="dlf">hole</span>, and the chicken was making noise. </sentence><sentence id="1533">Something to, you know, to mask the noise. </sentence><sentence id="1534">And this was what we're doing to, to try to, you know, to camouflage everything. </sentence><sentence id="1535">Then about food. </sentence><sentence id="1536">Her little sister, she was coming bringing something bread. </sentence><sentence id="1537">I have always there a few loaves of bread, which changing I make some mess, like a <span class="interior space">nest</span>; and there was exchanging every time fresh and they all using what we were eating. </sentence><sentence id="1538">And to not make suspicious the, the neighbor, so she says, "She is bringing bread and she is selling bread." </sentence><sentence id="1539">And always was going in this way, that they couldn't count how it is. </sentence><sentence id="1540">What was hiding. </sentence><sentence id="1541">And she never was talking to people. </sentence><sentence id="1542">She could play with little children, and never -- she never said a word about us. </sentence><sentence id="1543">And one time, they came. </sentence><sentence id="1544">My wife, she didn't come to work. </sentence><sentence id="1545">And there was another, she has to work. </sentence><sentence id="1546">So she was -- a few days she didn't come because she was feeling sick. </sentence><sentence id="1547">She didn't feel good. </sentence><sentence id="1548">And I see through the <span class="dlf">window</span> -- because always we were watching to see if someone could see a policeman is coming -- a Polish policeman and a German policeman is coming. </sentence><sentence id="1549">So I told her, "Go with us to the, to the" I said, "to the <span class="building">bunker</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1550">Hide. </sentence><sentence id="1551">And they will only your little sister. . </sentence><sentence id="1552">She will tell them that you went to buy some food, you know, in the <span class="populated place">village</span>, something." </sentence><sentence id="1553">And they knocked on the <span class="dlf">door</span>, and she opened. </sentence><sentence id="1554">They came. " </sentence><sentence id="1555">Where's your sister? </sentence><sentence id="1556">Who are you, your sister? </sentence><sentence id="1557">Where's your sister?" </sentence><sentence id="1558">Said, "She went to the <span class="populated place">village</span> to...to buy some food." </sentence><sentence id="1559">The policeman, he turned and slapped her in the face. </sentence><sentence id="1560">She fell down. </sentence><sentence id="1561">And he said, "Why are you lying? </sentence><sentence id="1562">Your neighbor, they told us that she was just now out here in the <span class="dlf">yard</span>." </sentence><sentence id="1563">And she start stutter "Why I, I have to lie? </sentence><sentence id="1564">She went -- she has to go through the <span class="dlf">yard</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1565">So she was in the <span class="dlf">yard</span>, and she went to, to the <span class="populated place">village</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1566">How she can go to, to the <span class="populated place">village</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1567">She has to go through the <span class="dlf">yard</span>, so maybe they saw her." </sentence><sentence id="1568">She talk to them. </sentence><sentence id="1569">I, I don't know. </sentence><sentence id="1570">She told she told them that she's going to, to buy food, and they look and they start to look around. </sentence><sentence id="1571">She didn't have nothing there. </sentence><sentence id="1572">A piece of bread and a little soup. </sentence><sentence id="1573">Nothing. </sentence><sentence id="1574">He said, "That's all you have?" " </sentence><sentence id="1575">Yes." " </sentence><sentence id="1576">You're alone at <span class="building">home</span>?" </sentence><sentence id="1577">She said, "Yes." " </sentence><sentence id="1578">You sleep alone?" " </sentence><sentence id="1579">Yes." " </sentence><sentence id="1580">You're not afraid?" </sentence><sentence id="1581">She said, "Why I have to be afraid?" " </sentence><sentence id="1582">That's what you are eating?" </sentence><sentence id="1583">And she said, "Yes." </sentence><sentence id="1584">They left her, and she didn't say nothing. </sentence><sentence id="1585">And they left her, and, and my wife was hiding, and she came out. </sentence><sentence id="1586">That was one episode. </sentence><sentence id="1587">There was many, many episodes during the time. </sentence><sentence id="1588">There was almost two years. </sentence><sentence id="1589">Every day, each hour was something that our life was threatened with gun. </sentence><sentence id="1590">At the end, when our -- one thing was good. </sentence><sentence id="1591">They have a <span class="spatial object">radio</span>, the German. </sentence><sentence id="1592">And they was listening to the news, and I was listening to the news. </sentence><sentence id="1593">And we can, they are listening to us we can thinking how they are going back. </sentence><sentence id="1594">They're running away. </sentence><sentence id="1595">And I said to my wife, "Soon or later, very soon, you will have your Russian. </sentence><sentence id="1596">Because they give them hell, and they ran." </sentence><sentence id="1597">And all my -- almost I find the day when they will come. </sentence><sentence id="1598">And I remember the last day when we heard there was fighting. </sentence><sentence id="1599">And we can hear the noise of the different noise of different bullet, different <span class="spatial object">rifles</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1600">The Russians have different rifles, and the German have different rifles. </sentence><sentence id="1601">We heard the difference in the noise. </sentence><sentence id="1602">So I said to my wife, "Probably they will come, but they are fighting." </sentence><sentence id="1603">We cannot go down, and we have to stay in the <span class="interior space">attic</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1604">But the bullets and ding, ding, ding, you know, was hitting. </sentence><sentence id="1605">I said to my all people there, "Listen, we have to lie down. </sentence><sentence id="1606">Keep something between your teeth. </sentence><sentence id="1607">If somebody -- they will hit somebody, you cannot scream. </sentence><sentence id="1608">If somebody will be dead, he will be dead. </sentence><sentence id="1609">This is our last chance. </sentence><sentence id="1610">But if they find us, if somebody will scream, she will be killed and her sister will be killed. </sentence><sentence id="1611">And we will be killed. </sentence><sentence id="1612">Because everybody now look for each other. </sentence><sentence id="1613">So you have to be prepared that something will happen no worse, nothing." </sentence><sentence id="1614">And we are lying down and listening, and she went down with her sister. </sentence><sentence id="1615">She went down, and with the neighbors was waiting. </sentence><sentence id="1616">And anyway, we under-- we can hear the bullet. </sentence><sentence id="1617">Some start to be more close, and some start to go away. </sentence><sentence id="1618">And I said, "I think probably the Russian are coming. </sentence><sentence id="1619">Because listen to the Russian sound of the bullets, the noise. </sentence><sentence id="1620">But we will see." </sentence><sentence id="1621">Then early in the morning, by six or seven o'clock in the morning, I look through the small thing. </sentence><sentence id="1622">They are going about six German soldiers with rifles, the helmets. </sentence><sentence id="1623">All came back going on the <span class="dlf">street</span> up. </sentence><sentence id="1624">I said, "My God, still, still there are Germans here." </sentence><sentence id="1625">And suddenly it came out a few boys with the armbands and a few soldiers, Russian soldiers and to them, "Hands up!" </sentence><sentence id="1626">And they fell down, and they were begging. </sentence><sentence id="1627">I said, "Thanks God, we are free!" </sentence><sentence id="1628">And that's it. </sentence><sentence id="1629">Next day, this what happened -- or the same day. </sentence><sentence id="1630">I don't remember. </sentence><sentence id="1631">Came two Russian, White Russian. </sentence><sentence id="1632">One was the lieutenant and one was a sergeant. </sentence><sentence id="1633">And they came. </sentence><sentence id="1634">She was in the <span class="dlf">window</span> singing, and this happened. </sentence><sentence id="1635">And they came, and first they asked, "Is Germans here?" </sentence><sentence id="1636">She said, "No, there are no Germans here." " </sentence><sentence id="1637">Can we come?" </sentence><sentence id="1638">And said, "Ok." </sentence><sentence id="1639">They came inside. </sentence><sentence id="1640">And my wife, she closed the <span class="dlf">windows</span>; and they start to talk this and this and not so. </sentence><sentence id="1641">My wife asked them always, "How far are Germans? </sentence><sentence id="1642">Maybe they can come back." </sentence><sentence id="1643">They was suspicious. </sentence><sentence id="1644">"What?," </sentence><sentence id="1645">they asking. " </sentence><sentence id="1646">What?" " </sentence><sentence id="1647">Because," she said, "there was one time that he went back, the Germans came back. </sentence><sentence id="1648">So this is what I'm asking." </sentence><sentence id="1649">He said, "Don't worry. </sentence><sentence id="1650">They are chasing them. </sentence><sentence id="1651">They are running away. </sentence><sentence id="1652">They are loosing their pants, pants." </sentence><sentence id="1653">And they said, "They are running away. </sentence><sentence id="1654">They will never come back here." </sentence><sentence id="1655">And we heard. </sentence><sentence id="1656">We were standing behind the <span class="dlf">doors</span>, but we heard this. </sentence><sentence id="1657">And we came and sat. </sentence><sentence id="1658">But look, we couldn't talk, because we didn't talk, only were whispering for almost two years. </sentence><sentence id="1659">We couldn't walk, because there was not walking up and down, just not exercise. </sentence><sentence id="1660">We were pale, you know, and terrible. </sentence><sentence id="1661">And they picked up their rifles. " </sentence><sentence id="1662">Who there?" </sentence><sentence id="1663">They thought maybe partisans. </sentence><sentence id="1664">So she told them. </sentence><sentence id="1665">And one of them was a Jewish lieutenant and his family was from <span class="country">Ukraine</span> killed by Germans. </sentence><sentence id="1666">And he -- and his sergeant, he was a regular Russian. </sentence><sentence id="1667">He said, "My, my goal is to chase the German and give them back what they did to my family, to my family." </sentence><sentence id="1668">He was crying. </sentence><sentence id="1669">He was kissing us, hugging. </sentence><sentence id="1670">He said to my wife, "You are really hero! </sentence><sentence id="1671">You are really hero!Without weapons, without nothing, you could fight so many as in the little girl, the sister." </sentence><sentence id="1672">They took pictures, and said, "What you need? </sentence><sentence id="1673">We will give you what you need." </sentence><sentence id="1674">He said, "We have the <span class="building">German hospital</span> here, there, there. </sentence><sentence id="1675">The whole thing there. </sentence><sentence id="1676">Loaded with everything. </sentence><sentence id="1677">What you -- dresses, shoes maybe. </sentence><sentence id="1678">And we will bring you meat." </sentence><sentence id="1679">And we said, "No, no. </sentence><sentence id="1680">Not now. </sentence><sentence id="1681">We would like to have freedom." </sentence><sentence id="1682">And how we did it, because we were afraid about neighbors still. </sentence><sentence id="1683">So we told them that -- it was night, we will go, the men, with them back to <span class="building">hospital</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1684">And next day, they will bring us, we will come back like guerrillas who are coming to, you know, with the army. </sentence><sentence id="1685">And we will look for my wife. </sentence><sentence id="1686">I will ask the neighbors about her. </sentence><sentence id="1687">We will come like guests. </sentence><sentence id="1688">We came. </sentence><sentence id="1689">We survived; we will hug her, we will kiss her. </sentence><sentence id="1690">So they will not suspect that it was us she was hiding people. </sentence><sentence id="1691">They said, "That's a good idea." </sentence><sentence id="1692">And we went, and the women and children were still with my wife there. </sentence><sentence id="1693">Next day, in the morning, we came with them. </sentence><sentence id="1694">There was a <span class="spatial object">wagon</span> with horses and everything was there. </sentence><sentence id="1695">We had rifles with us. </sentence><sentence id="1696">And I came, and I am looking; and I asked one neighbor. </sentence><sentence id="1697">I know them, because when I saw them, I said, "Hey, do you know if still around a...a girl?Her name is Podgorska, Stefania Podgorska. </sentence><sentence id="1698">She's my friend, my, my neighbor. </sentence><sentence id="1699">I have to seek her." </sentence><sentence id="1700">She said, "Why, yeah, yeah, yeah. </sentence><sentence id="1701">She is a good girl. </sentence><sentence id="1702">She's...she's..." They thought maybe we would kill her. </sentence><sentence id="1703">Because some people came to take advantage, maybe somebody that paid them or hanged them. </sentence><sentence id="1704">Said, "No, no. </sentence><sentence id="1705">She is my good friend. </sentence><sentence id="1706">She's -- I'd like to see her." </sentence><sentence id="1707">She said, "Well, she lives there." </sentence><sentence id="1708">We were going there. </sentence><sentence id="1709">We knocked on the <span class="dlf">door</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1710">She came: "Ahhh! </sentence><sentence id="1711">Hi. </sentence><sentence id="1712">Hi." </sentence><sentence id="1713">And we were greeting each other. </sentence><sentence id="1714">And there was beautiful thing what she did. </sentence><sentence id="1715">They -- we start to give to her some food, bring everything. </sentence><sentence id="1716">And we lived -- </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="1919">A: In <span class="populated place">town</span>, to find an <span class="interior space">apartment</span> to live. </sentence><sentence id="1920">And next day, I find <span class="interior space">apartment</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1921">Was occupied by German, some people. </sentence><sentence id="1922">German, and they run away. </sentence><sentence id="1923">They left everything they had. </sentence><sentence id="1924">Everything was there. </sentence><sentence id="1925">So I moved to the <span class="interior space">apartment</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1926">And I took the <span class="interior space">apartment</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1927">And then I had -- twice they came because there was some band of people who were killing people who saved Jewish life and, and the survivors. </sentence><sentence id="1928">They killed them. </sentence><sentence id="1929">They said, "One bullet for the survivor, two bullets for this who saved them -- for them who saved them." </sentence><sentence id="1930">And they was going around, but after a while they caught them. </sentence><sentence id="1931">They came twice to my <span class="interior space">apartment</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1932">I was living with my brother, his fiancee, my wife, her sister; and we lived there. </sentence><sentence id="1933">And they came. </sentence><sentence id="1934">That was on the <span class="interior space">second floor</span>, and there was a <span class="interior space">balcony</span> outside. </sentence><sentence id="1935">There was knocking on the <span class="dlf">door</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1936">So it was night, was like in winter, in February. </sentence><sentence id="1937">And they said -- I said, "Who are there?" </sentence><sentence id="1938">And they said, "Milice! </sentence><sentence id="1939">Milice!(r) Open!" </sentence><sentence id="1940">I said, "What are you looking for?" " </sentence><sentence id="1941">You have to go with us to, to work. </sentence><sentence id="1942">We have to fix the <span class="dlf">bridge</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1943">Is broken <span class="dlf">bridge</span>." </sentence><sentence id="1944">I said, "No, I'm not going at night with nobody. </sentence><sentence id="1945">You have some business to me, well, come in the morning when it's lighter." </sentence><sentence id="1946">People. </sentence><sentence id="1947">I will see who's who. </sentence><sentence id="1948">They start to swear to me. " </sentence><sentence id="1949">Open the <span class="dlf">door</span>, or we will break the <span class="dlf">door</span>!" </sentence><sentence id="1950">Like this, like this. </sentence><sentence id="1951">1 saw who were there. </sentence><sentence id="1952">I run on the <span class="interior space">balcony</span>. </sentence><sentence id="1953">I was screaming for help, help -- and they start to run away. </sentence><sentence id="1954">This was number one. </sentence><sentence id="1955">And then a few months later, another time they came. </sentence><sentence id="1956">So the commandant of the <span class="populated place">city</span> -- there was a Russian commandant. </sentence><sentence id="1957">And I went to him, and he told me, "Listen, you will never survive here." </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="1997">Q: You left, is that true? </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="1999">A: Yes, I left. </sentence><sentence id="2000">He said, "Go to another part of <span class="country">Poland</span>, where nobody will know you. </sentence><sentence id="2001">Nobody. </sentence><sentence id="2002">Change your name from the Pol -- Jewish name or German name to the Polish name." </sentence><sentence id="2003">And we did. " </sentence><sentence id="2004">Under new name, go and stay in another place of <span class="country">Poland</span> where nobody knows you. </sentence><sentence id="2005">Maybe you will survive." </sentence><sentence id="2006">But the best thing that I will tell, if I don't tell you this in secret. </sentence><sentence id="2007">I ran away from him. </sentence><sentence id="2008">This no place for me to live. </sentence><sentence id="2009">We want to survive. " </sentence><sentence id="2010">Go <span class="region">west</span> in the <span class="country">country</span>. </sentence><sentence id="2011"><span class="region">West</span>, if you can." </sentence><sentence id="2012">And this happened. </sentence><sentence id="2013">I went to <span class="populated place">Krakow</span>. </sentence><sentence id="2014">I changed my name. </sentence><sentence id="2015">And then I went to <span class="populated place">Wroclaw</span>. </sentence><sentence id="2016">I was studying. </sentence><sentence id="2017">I was accepted there. </sentence><sentence id="2018">Again, I studied from beginning my dentistry. </sentence><sentence id="2019">I graduated. </sentence><sentence id="2020">I was working. </sentence><sentence id="2021">I was assistant, and until I left <span class="country">Poland</span>; and now I am here, thanks God. </sentence><sentence id="2022">And I am very happy I am in the <span class="country">United States</span>. </sentence><sentence id="2023">I went here to <span class="building">Tufts University</span>. </sentence><sentence id="2024">I graduated, and I am a dentist. </sentence><sentence id="2025">Thanks God. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="2053">Q: We have I think two seconds. </sentence><sentence id="2054">Take out the picture that you did in hiding. </sentence><sentence id="2055">Just hold it up. </sentence></p></dialogue><dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="2056">Q: Ok, you drew that in hiding? </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="2058">A: When I was hiding, I was drawing. </sentence><sentence id="2059">This was the old man who passed away after war, a few years after war. </sentence><sentence id="2060">This is a woman and mother of two children. </sentence><sentence id="2061">This is her son. </sentence><sentence id="2062">And this is my brother's fiancee, and this time. </sentence><sentence id="2063">No, excuse me. </sentence><sentence id="2064">This is the wife of my friend, who -- she was survived, my wife, she saved her life and her husband. </sentence><sentence id="2065">He passed away in, in <span class="populated place">Jerusalem</span>, I think so. </sentence><sentence id="2066"><span class="country">Israel</span>. </sentence><sentence id="2067">He was a dentist. </sentence><sentence id="2068">Then, here we have what? </sentence><sentence id="2069">That is my brother's wife. </sentence><sentence id="2070">This was his fiance. </sentence><sentence id="2071">And this is a father, he's a dentist still in <span class="country">Poland</span>. </sentence><sentence id="2072">He 8 Militia (French, but adopted into many languages). </sentence><sentence id="2073"> was with his daughter. </sentence><sentence id="2074">We saved him and his daughter. </sentence><sentence id="2075">And I was drawing at this time the faces. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="2094">Q: Thank you very much. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Answer"><p><sentence id="2096">A: Thank you. </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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<dialogue class="Question"><p><sentence id="2098">Q: That's it. </sentence><sentence id="2099"> </sentence></p></dialogue> |
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