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Joseph Gringlas - January 22, 1993

What about your father?

My father, my father was a good looking man and eh, he was, hewas in business and eh, I was very close to my father because always goingto shul on Saturdays. I would go with him and eh, and I was, I was alwaysthinking oh, when I was-every night, would something happen to him I wouldn'tbe able to exist. I was very close to him. Like eh, like in summertime invacation was from school I went with my father every year to Warsaw and helpedout. And I was very interested in that business. "See," he said to me, "nowyou going to be in business." 'Cause I was interested in it. And very close.And, and to me, when I was taken away from-I was young, about fourteen years,fifteen years, it tore my- it was like life is, I, it's finished, just, becauseI had so much love for my parents. And it was, I was taken away from them.That did a lot to me.

W...w...was he the disciplinarian in the house?

He was very, he was the disciplinarian in the house. I eh, usuallynever-I don't know, never come across that was hitting me, but one time Iwas hit-I remember, what did I did? I went, I loved very much, I told you,soccer playing. I went to soccer and forget to come home to eat. And I camehome, that was it. He, now he was very disciplinarian. You got to do whathe tell you to do. But I loved, I loved him 'cause he was very nice, niceman.

Your mother, did she worry a lot?

Yeah, my, my mother was the worry type, right. She's-you know.

What would she worry about?

What would she worry about?