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Emerich Grinbaum - October 3, 2000

How large was your family?

Pardon me?

How large was your family?

Uh, I-mother, father and I have a younger brother.

Any extended family, would you...

It's a lot, you know. My mother uh, my mother had uh, seven brothersand sisters, only, two, three children. My father had three brothers and sisterswith, with children. Very much so. Uh, going ahead uh, most of them, they,they perished.

How large would you say it was, how many people?

The extended family with, with uncles, aunts and, and...

Cousins.

and cousins, I might say up to thirty people.

And most, most perished.

Most perished.

Do you know how many survived?

Of the...if you had told me I could have ca...calculated. I thinkthat it is uh, ??? seven or eight. So.

And of your immediate family, how many survived?

Immediate family, I was fortunate. My father survived and mybrother survived. We were all three together practically all the time. Onetime we were separated during the camp if you later, you will ask me questionsI'll tell you. But we survived. And uh, my bro...my brother who was, matterof-I was at that time fourteen, in 1944. My brother was born in, in 1931.So he was thirteen-even less. Uh, that's an interesting story if you, if you'regoing to ask me questions I'll explain to you.