Salvatore and Lili Katan - August 18, 1981
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When you came to Detroit did you talk about your experiences in the camps with anybody?
SK: Yeah, I spoke a little bit to the ???
I mean, when you first came?
SK: No, not when we first came, no...
Did you talk to anybody?
SK: Uh, no. I mean, the, the Jewish people, some Jewish people sympathize with us, you know--talk, you know, ???
Anybody who didn't, you didn't talk to about it?
SK: No, no.
Um, well, you still have pains in your legs?
SK: Once in a while, yeah, I get a little pain from the operation.
Anything else?
SK: You know, dreams and sometimes I, I talk when I'm sleeping and my wife sometimes she's hysteria, you know, and she wakes me up.
Do you think that ???
SK: No, ???, um...
How, how, how do you feel about talking about it?
SK: I feel very much sad when I talk about it but sometimes I feel better ??? because everything in life ???
Are, are you--do, do you feel more at ease talking about it with friends or family or with strangers?
SK: With everyone I have some conversation like that ??? otherwise you don't, you don't remember. I...
Did you tell your children?
SK: Huh?
Did you tell your children?
SK: Oh, yeah. As a matter of fact, as a matter of fact I tell them before...
LK: Then they start to read about ???...
SK: ...??? television...
LK: ...then we start to tell.
SK: ...then we start to tell.
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