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