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Joseph Gringlas - January 14, 1993

How many people lived in your house during the ghetto?

You mean, how many? We were, we uh, we lived in, but our familylived together in a house.

In a house or in an apartment?

There was like a house, yeah, it was a house.

And so there were eight of you in the house. Did anybody else?

But no, was this, one of the son's was married and wasn't withus anymore. It was two-two actually was married and they, they lived together.

Is that?

Ok, [looks at photos] this is one my brother and this is my sister.And this is my brother, he was married, he was a ta...tailor. Uh, the-he,this brother is uh, my brother, he was in the army, before the war, Polisharmy and eh, he was a time went to the army and after he had finished thearmy in Poland the war broke out and he was called back right away to the,going into the war. And, and he was called away eh, yeah, back to the, tothe eh, troops. So I-we and we got the uh, like somebody told us that they'regoing through my hometown to Warsaw, going to the front. And whatever hisunit was, was Jaroslaw-in the east side of Poland, and we hear that it's goingto come down. So we stayed all night long at the, down at the station to seehim. And that is, then the train came in, we saw a lot of people coming outand we couldn't see him at all. We stayed all night, the family went to seehim because he's going to the front. And we saw-at the end, th...he was atend of the wagon, we saw him waving with the train was going away.