Emerich Grinbaum - January 8, 2001
America
Let me take you-and you came to Detroit...
Immediately, because my relatives were here.
Because you had relatives here. I have a couple of thingsabout the impact of the, the Holocaust experience on you, on you, your life.
Right.
Was it, was it a daily or a regular um, burden to you? I meand...d...did you remember on a daily basis various things that had happenedduring the War?
Almost.
Nightmares?
Almost, almost. I remember the whole-almost, you know. I rememberthe shocking experience when we, we left the ghetto to the, to the uh, to-weleft the ghetto to the...
To the brick factory.
brick factory. That was first time we encountered the beatingand all that stuff, you know. And then the first impression of Auschwitz andthen the first impression uh, first impression uh, in the camp. Uh, the Warsawcamp and the horr...horrific expression between, when we left uh, Warsaw toDachau. That was you know, that was a long experience.
And how would these things intrude into your life?
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