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Joseph Gringlas - January 22, 1993

Yeah. [long pause] I mean, you said it was difficult to walkhome from school.

Yeah eh, from school was always difficult home because we werehit with stones. And, and, and then and then not enough, from cheder I wenthome and with the cheder it was right in the market. It was a lot of Jewishpeople living there. But the church was right in the corner from the market,down, going to the house called ???. It was on Sunday special, I rememberand that time Sunday I went for home from the back-my-it was, I got hit mostlythat time. Because it's-because when they came out from church that, I don'tknow, that, in, in Poland in a church, the anti-Semitism came out from thechurch mostly. Because that's where the youngest generation were, they weretold in the church how the Jews are-you should be against the Jews or somethinglike that. So I was, it was uh, a lot of times I got hit, just going home,from the mar...or cheder, going home.

And did your mother worry about that?

Yeah, she was always worried about it, that-you know. That, worriedthat eh, be afraid of not being safe and, and what's happened here. We justuh, very bad feeling. But uh, still we had our home, our family. We, we gotused even though you get used to that. That's the life is. You feel like thatthat's the whole world is living like that.