Joseph Gringlas - January 22, 1993

So there was another, another reunion with your brother.

Yeah, Mm-hm. And uh, I was just, nice-sometimes like raincoatthat and they thought and my aunt, the family thought I coming down, who knowswho was coming down from Europe. Of course being German after war, you knewit, said life was, was starting to get normalized so and we came down andin Detroit. It was a reunion but then what happened-we saw my family, it wasuh, my family, my mother's family, my mother's brothers, yeah and uncles werehere and they all talking, talking. Telling the whole story. And it's, it,it was terrible, telling the, whole thing what we went through.

Did they want to hear it?

Yea...some, they want to hear, but eh, ah, it's a lot of things.It's hard to talk about, the family wasn't.


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