Salvatore and Lili Katan - August 18, 1981
Nightmares
SK: ??? go so far ??? beautiful, she was shaking. I said, "What's the matter with you? It's your son!"
LK: ??? beautiful when I see ??? and I know, I mean I think ???
SK: Yeah ???
LK: I don't have to have ??? Even today ??? I want to make a ??? cancer, said, "You know, you are just like--" your doctor too? Really? You know? He was so cute. He's really, really--I like him, really, he is a beautiful person ??? my mother. My mother used to see him for so many years ???. When she came here she went through the same thing because being in concentration camp ??? she was shaking so he said, "You know what? Forget about it already, forget about it already. As I doctor I wish I could--I cannot help her, I cannot help." The fear in me and the nightmares, you know? For ten years--I've given up on trying for ten years my sister ??? get married ??? how long have a I been a patient with you? ??? everybody ??? I had friend and cousins ??? lost everything you think but somehow they left out the pride, okay? ??? I cannot explain it but anti-Semitism ??? some of the womans in our ??? and the doctor--the German ???
SK: ???
LK: ??? stay together and those womans and ??? thirty-seven years ??? and on the ride to Auschwitz there were three dead in the boxcars--how they arrived, you know?
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