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Joseph Gringlas - January 14, 1993

You went back to Poland? We should talk about how you wentback to Poland.

Yeah, back to Poland.

You and your brother together?

Yeah.

Did you think anyone had survived?

We knew-we didn't think survived, but maybe, you know, I justthink of my brother, that brother, which remember I told you about in thearmy eh, Polish army, fighting...

Yeah.

the war with Germans. He survived and he never seen it. Who,maybe when, we couldn't think about maybe we'll go back and we'll find him.We came back eh, we went on the tr...it was trains going through Poland onthe tra...you know, going through Ger....We went on the trains in Germanygoing to Poland. We saw a lot of the-Leipzig and Dresden was like finished.All the buildings were like skeletons. We sa...we felt good about it. Theyshould have the taste what we went through. And then we came Poland and we,we, we were-I was with my brother where they're loading, on the train goingto Poland on the coals. You know coal-on the coal they use them to make thetrain go, the locomotive. So all was dark, we came my hometown. In hometownwe found some, from my hometown, some survivors. We made a committee and theyhelped us, food, something, dress, getting, you know, clothes.

Was the Joint there?

Yeah, it was probably organized by the American Jewish people.But the, the people worked is the people were, were survivors.

Mm-hm.

And uh, I went to my, the town, it was the same thing, was thewar. It looked like same thing. And I went to one of the, go...eh, going backsomething to tell you about something. When the war broke out. Can I go there