0:08 honeymoon for the next few months I went
0:11 back to visit my father quite regularly
0:17 to hear his story about Mom 11 12
0:22 13 uh what are you doing pop I'm making
0:29 into daily portions my pills 14 15 16 17 18
0:31 18
0:34 so many it's six pills for the heart I
0:37 one for diabetes and maybe 25 or 30 for
0:39 vitamins for my condition I must fight
0:42 to save myself doctors they only give me
0:44 junk food that's how I call prescription
0:46 drugs now I study this in my Prevention
0:49 magazines maybe you want to read no
0:52 thanks about mom did she have any
0:54 boyfriends before she met you not
0:59 romantic but one tall boy from Warsaw he
1:02 was a
1:04 communist even after the marriage when
1:07 this fellow came to snock Ana always ran
1:10 to see him I didn't know of course that
1:12 he was a communist I always kept far
1:14 away from communist
1:17 people a little after we were married I
1:21 came home from a selling trip hey vladic
1:22 they just arrested the seamstress that
1:25 lives down your hall she had some secret
1:28 communist documents and when I went upstairs
1:30 upstairs
1:34 the police just arest huh what's the
1:37 matter the police were here looking for
1:41 Ana she just told us that boy from
1:43 Warsaw brings communist messages she
1:45 translates them into German and passes
1:49 them on Ana was involved in
1:55 conspirations a little before the police
1:57 came she got from Friends a telephone
2:00 call they suspect you hide the papers
2:02 quickly but they're important try not to
2:05 destroy them what to do she ran to the
2:08 seamstress what was one of our tenants
2:11 Miss stefanska please hide this package
2:14 from me don't tell anyone about it and
2:18 Ana was a good customer so she
2:21 agreed the police went over our house
2:23 top to bottom it was nothing to find so
2:26 they searched the neighbors okay how did
2:29 you get this package I never saw it
2:30 before when one of my customers must
2:33 have left it Ana was safe but the
2:36 seamstress they
2:38 arrested when I found out this story I
2:40 was ready to break the marriage I told
2:43 her Ana if you want me you have to go my
2:46 way if you want your communist friends
2:49 then I can't stay in this house and she
2:50 was a good girl and of course she
2:53 stopped all such things what happened to the
2:53 the
2:56 seamstress Miss stefanska sat in prison
2:59 for a longer time maybe three months
3:01 father-in paid the cost from the lawyers
3:11 15,000 lotes that's a lot huh yeah but
3:13 not only this at the same time he did
3:16 for us even more you know vladic when
3:19 you and Anya give me a grandchild I want
3:22 him to be well off well I almost have
3:25 enough from my sales trips to start up a
3:29 textile shop a shop you ought to have a
3:31 textile Factory that would cost a
3:34 fortune please I can give you the money
3:38 and plenty of credit I started a factory
3:42 in beelo and visited to Ana every
3:45 weekend by October 1937 the factory was
3:48 going and it was born my first son rief
3:51 he was a big baby over three kilos my
3:54 God Ana only weighs
3:56 39 of course you never knew him he
4:00 didn't come out from the war yes I know
4:02 but wait if you were married in February
4:05 and Richie was born in October was he
4:07 premature yes a
4:11 little but you after the war when you
4:13 were born it was very premature the
4:15 doctors thought you wouldn't live I
4:18 found a specialist what saved you he had
4:19 to break your arm to take you out from
4:22 Ana's belly and when you were a tiny
4:26 baby your arm always jumped up like this
4:29 we joked and called you H Hitler always
4:31 we pushed your arm down and you would
4:35 oops now look what you made me do okay
4:38 I'll recount them later no you don't
4:41 know counting pills I'll do it after I'm
4:43 an expert for
4:46 this so Ana stayed with the family and I
4:48 went to live in Bilco for my factory
4:51 business and to find for us an apartment
4:54 but soon it came from Sask a telephone
4:58 vadic come home right away Ana is sick
5:00 she was crying as soon as soon as I came
5:02 in what's wrong darling SOB it doesn't
5:05 matter nothing matters but why are you
5:08 crying I don't know I have a good family
5:11 and a fine son I should be happy but I
5:14 don't care I just don't want to
5:18 live here baby drink this and rest I
5:20 don't understand what's the matter
5:22 giving birth was too much of a strain
5:25 she's always hysterical or depressed a breakdown
5:27 breakdown
5:29 please the doctor told us about
5:32 sanitarium but somebody must go with her
5:34 somebody she trusts everything's
5:36 arranged the child can stay here with a
5:43 factory right away we rent the
5:45 sanitarium was inside Czechoslovakia one
5:47 of the most expensive and beautiful in
5:50 the world I remember we were almost
5:53 arrived we passed a small town oi
5:55 everybody every Jew from the train got
5:58 very excited and frightened
6:02 look it was the beginning of 1938 before
6:03 the war hanging high in the center of
6:07 town it was a Nazi
6:09 flag here was the first time I saw with
6:12 my own eyes the
6:16 swastika I tell you there's a PGM going
6:19 on in Germany today one fellow told us
6:21 of his cousin what was living in Germany
6:24 he had to sell his business to a German
6:26 and run out from the country without
6:28 even the money
6:29 money
6:33 it was very hard there for the Jews
6:36 terrible another fellow told us a
6:39 relative in Brandenburg the police came
6:42 to his house and no one heard from him
6:45 again it was many many such stories
6:48 synagogues burned Jews beaten with no
6:51 reason whole towns pushing out all Jews
6:54 each story was worse than the other
6:56 let's hope those Nazi gangsters get
6:58 thrown out of power just pray that they
7:03 the sanitarium was far away from
7:06 everything so peaceful so quiet look at
7:09 how beautiful these Gardens are Ana
7:12 uh-huh people came from all over the
7:14 world with different sicknesses it was
7:17 even shops here a theater really
7:19 beautiful our room is like a luxury
7:22 hotel look at this view uh-huh each
7:25 morning nurses would visit Ana and each
7:26 few days I talked to the big specialist
7:29 at the clinic well what did the doctor
7:31 say say he told me you're doing fine
7:33 fine just
7:35 relax I understood much of such
7:37 sicknesses so I helped always to calm
7:40 her down look we got a letter from home
7:44 today with a photo of rief let me see
7:46 he's a handsome boy just like his father yes
7:49 yes
7:51 yes in the evenings we went either to
7:54 the theater or to dance in the cafe did
7:56 I tell you the tragedy about the pillow
7:58 my family lost at the start of the 1914
8:01 War I was seven we lived too close to
8:04 the Border it wasn't safe I told her
8:06 many jokes and stories to keep her busy
8:08 so we took what we could on a wagon
8:10 pulled by four horses and went to my
8:13 grandfather's home in ramco someone rode
8:15 past us and told us that we' dropped a
8:18 pillow a few miles back a guy traveling
8:21 to amow picked it up imagine my father
8:23 never rode a horse before but he
8:26 unhitched one from the wagon and rode
8:29 toward amow we waited and waited mother
8:31 started crying surely he fell and got
8:33 killed she had begged him to let the
8:35 pillow go and take all our troubles with
8:38 it the horse was bony and didn't have a
8:40 saddle finally late that night father
8:43 rode back with the pillow under his
8:46 bloody tus so father got his pillow back
8:48 but he couldn't sit down for the rest of
8:52 the war I love you vadic and she was so
8:54 laughing and so happy so happy that she
8:56 approached each time and kissed me so
8:58 happy she
9:00 was we stayed maybe 3 months and when we
9:02 came back Ana was completely different
9:06 from when she left YooHoo Papa Ana you
9:08 look like a
9:10 million listen vladic I didn't want you
9:11 to worry while you were at the
9:15 sanitarium but brace yourself the bco
9:18 factory has been robbed what it happened
9:22 last month they took everything I I I I
9:24 didn't even have time to ensure it
9:27 before we left well at least I can help
9:30 you build it up again you looted as part
9:32 of some kind of anti-Semitic activity I
9:35 don't think this was it just a robbery
9:37 like when they robbed us in Regal Park
9:39 here last year Well in bco father-in-law
9:45 ourselves in a couple months we were
9:47 well off quite well off a working
9:50 Factory a two-bedroom apartment a Polish
9:53 govern us and even a maid Lui Papa's
9:56 home you look upset vadic there was
9:58 another Riot downtown today everyone
10:00 yelling Jews out Jews out even two
10:03 people killed the police just watched
10:05 and those it's those Nazis stirring
10:07 everybody up when it comes to the juice
10:10 the poles don't need much stirring up
10:13 Mrs spiegelman how can you say such a
10:15 thing I think of you as part of my own
10:18 family I'm sorry Janina I didn't mean
10:21 you I just worried maybe we should move
10:24 away like some others have if things get
10:26 really bad we'll run back to
10:29 snock why would snck be many safer than
10:32 bco we thought then that Hitler Wanted
10:35 only parts from Poland like Belco what
10:37 used to be parts from Germany before the
10:40 first world
10:42 war we were very happy still for over a
10:46 year until August 24th 1939 a letter
10:49 from the government a draft notice I was
10:51 in the Polish reserves Army and so I had
10:54 to go right away it was a big confusion
10:56 everyone knew it would be now a war
10:58 quick pack everything your father will
10:59 take you to SAS
11:02 vadic I'm afraid grab your knickknacks
11:04 and the doll connection they're
11:06 collection they're not important you'll
11:09 see you may enjoy them I was right when
11:11 things went worse later she was able to
11:14 sell such things so Ana and Reve and
11:16 govern and the governance went in one
11:18 way to
11:20 swick and I went then in a different
11:24 direction to the frontier against
11:27 Germany and on September 1st 1939 the
11:29 war came I was on the front when of the
11:32 first two AK so twice I spilled my
11:35 drugstore it's my eyes ever since I got
11:37 in my left eye the hemorrhaging and the
11:39 glaucoma it's had to be taken out from
11:42 me and now I don't see so well and now I
11:45 have a cataract inside my one good eye
11:47 you see how I have to suffer I told you
11:49 about the big shot specialist what was
11:52 going to operate me uhhuh last year he
11:54 put me into the hospital for an
11:56 immediate operation and then he just
11:58 left me he went somewhere away to give
12:01 give lectures on
12:04 television my eye started so bleeding I
12:06 had to run out to find a doctor in a
12:08 different hospital there another
12:10 specialist operated right away otherwise
12:13 I could have died so now it's a glass
12:16 eye he did a good job no one time even a
12:18 young doctor came to my bed there in the
12:21 hospital he looked with a light and a
12:23 long time in my eyes and told Mr
12:25 spiegelman your left eye is perfect but
12:28 in your right eye is cataracts he didn't
12:30 even know know of course that the left
12:33 eye is glass and I didn't tell anything
12:35 to him I didn't want to make him an
12:37 embarrassment uh-huh you told me about
12:40 that well it's enough for today yes I'm
12:43 tired and I must count still my pills
12:45 okay good idea my hand is sore from
