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