Joseph Gringlas - January 14, 1993
Size of Family
The, the whole family, cousins, aunts, uncles did you havegrandparents? Do you remember your grandparents as well?
I remember, only grandparents I remember is my mother's mother.And she was living with a, my aunt, my mother's sister.
Was she alive when the war came?
She was liv...no, the war started, she, she died before the war.
In 1939, before the war started, how, how large do you thinkthe whole family was? The extended family?
Oh it was uh, we were eight, let's see. And my uncle's two sonsand then from my father's side, my uncle. And my mother's side were abouteight children, about. It's a big family. And uh, there was another, anoth...mymother, there was three sisters in Ostrowiec. Now there's, now the...uh, and,and about seven, eight children. It was a big, large family.
Sixty? Fifty?
Yeah, about that.
About that.
Mm-hm.
How many survived?
Ok, who survived eh, so it was brother and me, two of us fromour family survived.
Your other siblings were all...
My family.
all, four others were killed then.
Others was sent away and killed, right.
And aunts and uncles?
All aunts all went...
To Auschwitz.
No, they didn't go to Auschwitz. The time after-it was in the-beforethey started the, sending out the peo...Jewish people from my home town, Iwas working, my brother was working. In my home town there was a big factory,it's uh, metal-big metal factory.
The German factory?
It was a Polish factory before the war, but the German took itover in.
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