0:02 Rigo Park New York
0:05 1958 it was summer I remember I was 10
0:08 or 11 last one to the scho yard is a rotten
0:10 rotten
0:12 egg I was roller skating with Hoy and
0:17 Steve till my skate came loose ow hey
0:20 wait up fellas rotten
0:23 egg wait
0:30 something Arty come to hold this a
0:31 minute while I
0:34 saw why do you cry Arty hold better on
0:37 the wood I I fell and my friend skated
0:39 away without
0:43 me he stopped sighing friends your
0:45 friends if you lock them together in a
0:48 room with no food for a week then you
0:56 friends my father bleeds history mid
0:58 1930s to Winter 1944
1:00 1944
1:09 Chic I went to see my father in Rigo
1:11 Park I hadn't seen him in a long time we
1:14 weren't that close Papa oi Arty you're
1:18 late I was worried it's a shame franois
1:21 couldn't also didn't come mhm she sends
1:23 regards he had aged a lot since I saw
1:25 him last my mother's suicide and his two
1:29 heart attacks had taken their toll Mala
1:32 look who's here Arty he was remarried
1:34 Mala knew my parents in Poland before
1:36 the war she was a Survivor too like most
1:39 of my parents friends hi Arty let me
1:41 take your
1:45 coat the dinner is on the table ah Mala
1:47 a wire hanger you give him I haven't
1:49 seen Arty in almost two years we have
1:57 along after dinner he took me into my
2:00 old room come we'll talk while I pedal
2:02 it's good for my heart the pedaling but
2:05 tell me how is it by you how is going
2:07 the comics business I still want to draw
2:13 you the one I used to talk to you about
2:16 about your life in Poland and the war it
2:19 would take many books my life and no one
2:21 wants anyway to hear such
2:24 stories I want to hear it start with Mom
2:26 tell me how you met better you should
2:28 spend your time to make drawings what
2:30 will bring you some money but if you
2:40 Ina a small City not far from the border
2:42 of Germany I was in textiles buying and
2:44 selling I didn't make much but always I
2:50 living I was at that time young and
2:52 really a nice handsome boy I had a lot
2:54 of girls what I didn't even know that
2:57 would run after me hello vladic this is
3:00 ulik a friend of mine Luc Greenberg
3:02 would like to be introduced to
3:06 you the Chic people always told me I
3:08 looked just like Rudolph
3:10 Valentino eventually I took Lucia to
3:14 dance do you live alone yes I have a
3:17 small apartment my parents moved to
3:25 sometime wherever we went I looked
3:27 around and Lucia Greenberg would also be
3:30 there vadic which way are you going just
3:33 to the market me too let's walk together
3:37 but pop mom's name was Anna
3:39 zilberberg all this was before I met
3:42 Anya just listen yes why don't you ever
3:44 invite me to your home Are you ashamed
3:46 of it she kept insisting me to show her my
3:47 my
3:50 apartment so finally I invited her
3:53 everything's so neat and clean I like to
3:55 keep things in order you must have
3:58 another girlfriend who cleans for you no
4:00 no I didn't want want to be more closer
4:09 go was she the first girl you uh yes we
4:12 were more involved so like the you here
4:14 today we saw each other together for
4:17 maybe three or four years let's get
4:19 engaged vadic it's late I'll take you
4:22 home not yet please come on your parents
4:25 would worry her family was nice but had
4:28 no money even for a
4:31 dowy well every holiday I went to visit
4:33 my family it was maybe a journey of 35
4:36 or 40 miles cousin vodic it's good to
4:39 see you again listen there's a girl in
4:42 my class I want you to meet us tomorrow
4:44 her name is Ana she's incredibly clever
4:48 from a rich family a very good
4:50 girl the next morning we all met
4:52 together my cousin and Ana spoke
4:55 sometimes in English how you like him
4:58 he's a handsome boy and seems very nice
5:00 they couldn't know I understood well I
5:01 promise to be home early I'll leave you
5:05 two alone you know you should be careful
5:07 speaking English a stranger could
5:11 understand you you know English did you
5:13 study it in school I had to quit school
5:17 at about 14 to work but I took private
5:19 lessons I always dreamed of going to
5:22 America it's a s shame you have to
5:27 return to such CH so soon yes but I have
5:30 my business have you a phone at home
5:33 as soon as I came back to set so cha she
5:37 called once a day twice every day we
5:39 talked and then she started writing to
5:42 me such beautiful letters almost nobody
5:44 could write polish like she wrote I
5:46 visited a couple times to her she sent
5:50 me a photo I bought a very nice frame it
5:53 passed maybe a week until Lucia again
5:55 came and saw the photo I'm going to get
5:56 engaged to her
6:00 Lucia and look at what a beauty you pick
6:02 looks aren't everything Lucia it isn't
6:04 good for either of us that you keep
6:06 coming up here we have to plan for our
6:09 futures and forget her let me make you
6:12 happy it was not so easy to get free from
6:19 Lucia mom wasn't that attractive huh not
6:21 so like Lucia but if you talked a little
6:23 to her You Started Loving Her more and
6:25 more one time we walked into the
6:27 director from her school you're very
6:30 lucky Mr spiegelman you don't know what
6:32 a girl you're getting I've had many
6:35 students but never one as sensitive and
6:38 intelligent as Anna yes that's why I
6:41 picked her I wish you could visit me in
6:43 ceter choa I'd like to show you off to
6:46 my friends I've begged my mother to let
6:48 me go but she's so religious and
6:50 old-fashioned she would never allow me
6:53 to go back to a bachelor's apartment
6:54 Ana's parents were anxious she should be
6:58 married she was 24 I was then 30 oh my
7:00 parents would like you to come to dinner
7:03 tomorrow night the zberg family was very
7:05 well off
7:08 millionaires the zabber bgs had a hosery
7:11 factory one of the biggest in Poland but
7:12 when I came into their house it was so
7:17 like a king came welcome welcome Ana lak
7:19 is here make yourself comfortable while
7:21 I help with
7:23 dinner to see what a housekeeper she was
7:26 I peaked into Ana's closet everything is
7:28 neat and straight just the way I like it
7:29 but what's this
7:33 pills I wrote down every pill if she was
7:35 sick then what did I need it for dinner is
7:37 is
7:40 ready later a friend a druggist told me
7:41 the pills were only because she was so
7:44 skinny and nervous how about some more
7:47 Gila fish blik so to make a long story
7:50 short by the end of 1936 we were engaged
7:56 swick ah here I forgot to tell something
7:58 from before I moved to swick but after
8:01 our Eng engagement was made one evening
8:04 the bell rang Lucia what are you doing
8:06 here I'm on my way out I I'll come with
8:10 you no you can't come with please flaik
8:13 she fell on the floor and held strong my
8:17 legs don't run away I saw now that I
8:20 went too far with her I ran out to my
8:22 friend who introduced us he went to calm
8:25 her down and took her
8:28 home I didn't hear more from Lucia but
8:30 also I stopped hearing from Ana no
8:32 telephone calls no letters nothing what
8:36 happened hello Mr Mrs zberg could I
8:39 speak to Ana she says she won't speak to
8:42 you but why she got a letter from
8:45 someone in csoa my God it says the worst
8:47 things in the world about you well I
8:49 can't convince her on the phone I'll
8:53 come down by train on Friday after
8:56 work it wasn't even a holiday but I went
8:59 anyway to swick so tell me Ana what have
9:01 I done that's so horrible you should
9:04 know just read
9:07 this I don't even want to see it just
9:09 tell me who wrote it or better yet I'll
9:12 tell you Lucia Greenberg right it's just
9:15 signed your secret friend L it says you
9:18 have a very bad reputation in sedoa that
9:20 you have lots of girlfriends and that
9:25 you're marrying me for my money ah Ana
9:27 you should know me better ask anyone in
9:30 Tacho about my character Luc is an old
9:32 girlfriend who won't leave me alone she
9:34 means nothing at all to me and after
9:37 much talking I convinced her so I moved
9:40 to Sask at the end of 1936 and February
9:43 14th 1937 we were married and now some
9:46 vodka to toast the young couple I moved
9:47 into one of father-in-law's two
9:49 apartments he owned both and he gave to
9:51 me part ownership and a very beautiful
9:54 gold watch for a wedding
9:57 gift but this what I just told you about
9:59 Lucia and so I don't want you should
10:02 write this in your book what why not it
10:04 has nothing to do with Hitler with the
10:07 Holocaust but pop it's great material it
10:10 makes everything more real more human I
10:12 want to tell your story the way it really
10:14 really
10:16 happened but this isn't so proper so
10:19 respectful I can tell you other stories
10:21 but such private things I don't want you
