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Joseph Gringlas - January 14, 1993

How large was your family?

My family-we are, we had five, five in-my family was eight. Six,six children and father and mother

And...

one daugh...one sister I had and five, five brothers.

And where were you in the family, middle child?

I was the youngest one.

The youngest one?

Yeah.

Uh, and what about aunts and uncles? Grandparents?

Oh, we had uncles, had uncles uh, my, my, my mother's side, uncleswas, was two sisters her family in Ostrowiec. And then she had, she had two-threebrothers in United States at the time. They left a long time before the war.So they lived in United States. And there were cousins, a lot of cousins infamily.

And y...your father's side?

Father's side was ano...yeah, he had uh, one uh, brother, myuncle and uh, son and, and other son with two s...two, two sons. But uh, myuncle was uh, he was older than my father. At the time the Nazis came in,then, then he was very religious-they cut his beard. And after that he gotso sick and he died. So he died just during the occupation-the German occupation.And there was another brother from my father's side-he died, an older one,before the war.

Okay. What are your brothers' and sisters' names?

My broth...elder brother is Mendel. There is Jake, Yakov andSchloimo and my sister Bila and my brother, which is still living now in UnitedStates, is Sol and me.

And do you remember your uncles' names and your aunts' names?

Oh yes, I remember uncles because one of my older, my older,one of the older brothers eh, Carbin, he worked for the uncles, so I rememberhim. The family had cousins.