When your, when your family heard about the war, how did they react to it? What, what...
They reacted it couldn't po...the Germans had--they probably were poor politicians, because--or maybe they were too good of a people--they said, "The Germans couldn't possibly be all that bad." But we also--they had also some idea since Hitler had came, uh, got into power, there were so many uh, um...
Husband: German Jews.
...German Jews coming into--to our cities before the war you know because, Hitler took over in '36.
Husband: Thirty-four.
Thirty-four? I don't remember. I was too young for this. But I remember...
Husband: Thirty-seven they start coming to Poland already.
...so uh, I remember, people were coming--they were telling stories that they didn't--they were not allowed to take anything, just run. It sounded like people here probably ??? when I'm telling you uh, uh, the ??? I was in this camp and that camp, I lost my mother, I lost my father. Oh, what a sad story, and that's probably it, you know, that's, that's--or, when I look back to Jewish history and I read, you know, Jews had a, you know, sad history all along, and this is probably another page to it. But this not a page. This is a whole new story. This is pages--stacks of books. This will never be told all, because every day you could write a book from every individual, from every individual survivor. Like she said, she read this book, she said, "It was all strange to me," you see?
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