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Emerich Grinbaum - January 8, 2001

You know what, I still thinking all the time. But I really, Isurvive without major uh, psychological, you know.

No, I...

I became, I became-I now-I became very much uh, Jewish orientedand interested in my-especially I'm semi-retired-ninety percent of my readingrelated to Jewish history, culture, religion and everything.

I mean are there certain things that remind you of um, youknow um, when I asked you before of the Bush candidacy if that reminded youof...

Yes, but not much, not much.

I mean...

Ah, sometimes. I, I, I told my wife many times when Bush, thatwas, but not really.

There's a, there's a man, one of the people that this comesto mind is everyday he would go by, on his way to work, on the SouthfieldExpressway he would go by a factory which had several chimneys and every singleday he was right back in the, in the camp.

No. No, probably I am...

Nothing regular.

No, nothing. I, I'm mentally relatively stable.

And what about talking about it?

Talking is a different story. Talking is a different story. Youknow, I very much involved. I'm reading a lot of about Holocaust and, and,and, of course, I, I am, all the movies which is related and it affects mevery much. The more, the more-when Schindler's List came out, I didn'twant to go even. You know, of, of course, I, I saw many. But they told thatit's so terrif...terrible, the scenes and, and...

Yeah.

you know. My wife went with my son and then I went later. Muchlater. Because I just didn't want to see that, you know. But then I'm gladthat I saw that. But it affects all the scenes they affects me. When I seedifferent camp. But I still you know, we, we, we are some kind of masochists,you know. We, we, we go through, masochist. We still seeing. And you know,and my friends know that I am so involved in this Jewish history and Jewishthat they, they already, if not, not laughing but they know that uh, I-youknow, my wife noticed that I always coming back to the eh, the, the pro-especiallynow with Israel and, and...

But did you always talk about it to people?

About what?

About your experiences.

Not too, not too often, not too often. About Jewish history ingeneral.

But not your experiences.

But, not-yeah, no. Not, not too often. You know, I had an impressionthat they're not much interested. Not everybody interested much.

Do you remember um, you were here in 1978 already.

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