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Joseph Gringlas - January 22, 1993

And two children.

We had two children. Larry, my son and Marcy, my daughter. Anduh, we give-tried to give them best education.

Now who-which is older?

Eh, Marcy's older. Two and half years older.

Ok, when Marcy was born, what went through your mind whenshe was born?

Was born-she was in, born in December, it was very winter, itwas eh, it was snow outside and I took off the day from work. It was a wonderfulfeeling that I get that we have a daughter. It was, that-nobody could thinkthat we could be alive and, and make a family. Thi...this is, it's just likea dream. We never, we never thought it's going to come true. But it came trueand we had a family, starting a family where my daughter was first child born.And after two and a half years, we had, we had a son, Larry. And they're twowonderful children.

Same feelings with Larry, I'm sure...

Yeah.

when he was born.

Larry was special, another thing a boy! It was a bris, you know.

And, and at the bris. W...w...um, you had a bris. Were therea lot of friends?

A lot of, yeah.

Relatives?

Relatives. My wife has got a big family you know eh, a lot of,you know, survived by hiding in Czechoslovakia. But eh, my family's mostlythe brother and the cousins, you know.

And did-when you came here did you make friends with, withmainly survivors?

Yeah, I make close friends with uh, Louis Kane, he was a closefriend.

And others?

And Louis Kane got married I was the best man at his wedding.So we would, yeah, we get-made some friends.

So at your wedding and at the bris and uh, were there lotsof survivors?

Yeah, a lot of survivors. That's the only thing you can-you couldinvite people, is the survivors and.