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"Maus at Midnight" with Mistah Tony - Vol 2, Ch. 4 | DerbyPublicLibraryCT | YouTubeToText
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This content is a reading and discussion of Chapter 4 of "Maus" Volume 2, a graphic novel that interweaves a father's harrowing survival story during World War II with his son's efforts to document it, highlighting themes of memory, loss, and the enduring impact of trauma.
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greetings
teen zone fans and graphic novel enthusiasts
enthusiasts
it's mr tone
also known as chap in the cap
good to see you continuing on with
our reading of
the classic and
there i say historic uh
graphic novel by the title of mouse
written by
we're getting pretty close to the end
now two chapters left
and today's offering will be chapter
chapter 4 of
mouse volume 2.
and let's go ahead and get us to the
screen share now again uh
keep in mind that the story
is essentially two stories it's
a story being told within a story okay
and they're
both true so they're not it's not like
we're making up stories here
we're talking about uh a father and son
the son being a graphic
novel writer and illustrator
and getting the story from his father about
about
his surviving the second world war
in various prison camps
uh so anyway let's go ahead and get back
to the slides let's see
let's and yes there we are
but all right i'll share that i'm going
to shrink up enough
there i am and put this out of the way
full screen and
back in rego park late autumn
always i saved
i saved only so i can have a little
something from my old age so now i have
my old age and look
what i have i have a tank with oxygen
and i'm so weak with my heart and my diabetes
diabetes
i can't live anymore alone
i have so much room you and francois can come
come
and for no rent live here by me
no that's totally up out of the question
so how have i to live artie tell me
to go to a retiring home it's not for me
well why not get a live-in nurse
you can afford it and what will my
neighbor say to it if they see a woman
is living by me
so hire a male nurse yeah
you and mala you don't know
to make money only to make it disappear
if i give on mala a hundred thousand dollars
dollars
over to her name then she'll live again
here this you advise me
myself maybe to your room i can find a tenant
tenant
to take care of me uh
huh maybe well come
we have now to carry up my storm windows
to put in
shy i was hoping you'd tell me more on
of your story this we can talk maybe after
after
but already i'm cold i lose money to heat
heat
with no storm windows
in other years i put my i put by now
the windows that i didn't need help
look i'll do it but first
just tell me more about anya anya
what is the towel everywhere i look i
see anya
from my good eye from my glass eye
if they're open and they're or they're closed
closed
always i'm thinking of anya
uh i meant when you were in dachau where
was anya
i don't know the different camps she
marched from i'll switch
earlier as me and came also through
but how did anya survive
nancy the hungarian girl what i knew
there in auschwitz
after the war
after the war always for mancy to give a nice
nice
reward but i didn't know even her full name
name
mom used to mention ravens
ravensbruck was nancy with her there
yeah maybe it was there i only know that
anya came
out free by the russians inside and she came
came
back to salzburg before me my liberation
it was the last minutes of the war i left.com
left.com
i went to be exchanged for german
prisoners on the swiss border
but we never came i remember we got each
a treasure box from the swiss red cross
sardines biscuits chocolates
some ate right away everything i kept of
course to have
later so at night some tried to steal
from me
with my typhus i needed still much to rest
rest
but this treasure was more to me
everybody up line up in fives
here here
and i saw not it's not
everywhere in my hell it's still life
given life things going on
we march we stop for hours we stood
what's going on they're taking us back
to d.col
no no the americans are coming it was commotions
commotions
and rumors then shouts the war is over
it was over march back to the tracks
snell it didn't leave us go
or put us on a freight train the
americans will be in the next town
they can ha they can have you
on this train no guards came so really
in half and half hour this train
hey stopped americans aren't here
so so went one way some another we didn't
didn't
know where we went halt or i'll shoot
all of a sudden it was vermont patrol
little by little they got all of us what
we're going to be
free maybe 150 or 200 people
over in the woods by a big lake i didn't
understand what was going on
but i was again here in german hands
they guarded us so we couldn't go away
there are machine guns set up all around us
us
we overheard they intend to murder every
one of us tonight
later in the afternoon i went over
close to the edge of the water lotic spiegel
spiegel
marek spiegelman is that you
shivik you're alive civic was from
before the war
a friend from that zone near souls
we survived everything just to just to get
get
shot while the war ends
i still have a little coffee i organized
look get him one older guy
he was maybe so he was maybe 50.
jumped into the lake it was a far swim
bang he made it do you have the strength
to try just stay near the water
we can always try try it when it's
when the real shooting starts so it came night
night
we were terrible we were terrible frightened
frightened
we sat and waited it was crying and praying
praying
so long we survived and now we want it only
only
that they shoot because we had
in the early morning we were still all
we were still all
alive they're gone it's a miracle
there's not one german left just their guns
guns
what happened i was lying near the head
officer's tent
his girlfriend was arguing with him she
begged him to let us go
she warned him he'd be punished
the war is over she cried let's run away
she saved us so we went
maybe we can get food at one of these farms
farms
halt on the road was another patrol
also catching jews so
we had again in the same story they found
found
we had we heard all night shooting in
the mountains
around our guards they all ran away
so this next morning we
still we were still again alive
calm shivek let's find a bunker let's
find a bunker until
we came by a garage so i went over
please sir we need a place to hide till
the americans get here
go away i don't want to get involved
have pity it's just for a day or two well
well
there's a pit in the back it's none of
my business if you want to lie in it
over a day we lay there then to vermont
came hey which way is innsbruck
that way officer but wait two jews are
back there hiding in a pit
they were in so big a hurry to run it
didn't look to us it didn't even look to us
we'll find a safer spot we passed a few horses
horses
and peeped inside
well look nobody seems to be home here
a part of this house it was a barn
we can hide up here under the head from
the walls we heard shooting
schnell elsa back what you can
hurry this may become a battlefield any minute
minute
the villagers are running away fine the
farther the better
kaboom the far side from our barn fell
down a little my god what happened
the vermont is retreating and blew up
the bridge to seal their trail
it means we're free
let's look around it's safe now uh-huh
i'm not going anywhere uh-uh uh-uh
slurp slurp i drank so long
i didn't know when i stopped i told you
it's safe now
i got you some milk look so we both
drank too much milk and looked around
ah chickens
civic he killed each day a chicken
and milked us a cow i used to dream
about chickens
look i found clothes upstairs we can
throw away our stripes
there i'm starting to feel human again
me too except uh get
getting nauseous our stomachs got a shock
shock
to eat milk and chickens we got very
sick of diarrhea
we lay a few days in bad shape until the
americans came
i told how we survived to hear
and from daca we came over by train
to all that's just my men
signaling that they found a cache of
those crowds can't hurt you anymore the
only ones left
are dead or dying [Music]
[Music]
this house will be part of our base camp
but i guess you boys can stay if you
keep the joint clean
and make our beds want some chocolate
maybe for later thank you
so we worked for the americans and
they'd like me that i can speak
english thanks for the shine willie
it's okay sergeant don't even mention
they gave us they gave to us food cans
one time it came a woman with officials
in the house
arrest those two jewish thieves
they stole my husband's clothes
we never looked on what clothes we we
never looked on what clothes we took
robbers you'll have to give them
back you'll have to give them back willie
willie
so let her take i i told
we have still three full vis releases
ah look at the time we have to hurry
now with my windows
but before i forget i put here a box
what you'll be happy to see i thought i
lost it
but you see how i saved
mom's diaries no no
on those it's no more to speak those
it's gone finished but
below my closet i find these snapshots
some still from poland thanks
come you'll look after the windows
you'll look after the windows this is
uncle herman
yeah he was anya's oldest brother
he ran and logged the family hosiery factory
factory
in 1939 him and hella came to see the
world's fair
and they stayed here the war in 1950
you were a baby we came also here from stockholm
stockholm
to this house i'd like better to stay in sweden
sweden
i had again a good business but anya
insisted to be with the only surviving
one of her
of all her family and oy when herman died
died
from hit run driver in 1964
our anya started then also to die a little
little
so here it's their two kids lolik and lania
lania
which stayed by us in sausage in the war
molech you know he then came out alive
from auschwitz so now he's an engineer
a big shot college professor and the big
the little girl she finished with rishu
in the ghetto this brother ivanya joseph
he was a saint sign painter commercial artist
artist
and had in loads a girlfriend a beauty
but she liked money and nightclubs
then the germans took away the factory
from anya's family
so he had less money and he left him
and she left him and he killed himself
the middle brother levick he ran with
his wife to russia
when the war came but when he saw how it
was there
he wanted to run back those who ran to russia
russia
they put to siberia as traders
but to smuggle back over the borders
cost a fortune
i sent some money in 1938
i needed cash to my factory he gave
so now i helped him come back to his wife
wife
to his wife's family in warsaw
in warsaw you know how it was
if they stayed only in russia
they still now maybe they'd
anya's parents and grandparents her big sister
sister
tosha little bibi and
our reishi all that is left
what about your side of the family my side
side
my father and fella and her four kids
my younger sister had only one kid each
and came with me to the ghetto before
they all
died later to auschwitz
marcus my closest brother and moses went
to a camp
to black amber soon after i came
out from the army i sent them money
by the red cross i hid it into bread
i wrote them this bread it's expensive
eat it very slow and careful i met after
the war
a guy he saw them die but wouldn't tell
me how
my other brothers leon and binnick they deserted
deserted
out from the polish army to lemberg in russia
russia
a family of peasant jews kept them safe
pinic he married one of them but leon
got sick doctors said it's typhus and he died
died
of a bad appendix so only my little brother
brother
pinnock came out from the war alive from
the rest
of my family it's nothing left
these photos we got from rishu's polish governess
governess
we gave her our valuable things to hold
until the war is over
but afterwards she said all these valuables
valuables
the nazis grabbed away we didn't believe
but the pictures at least she gave back
can i take these home yeah
it's for you but wait i'll put them in them
them
to an envelope
the cigar box i could need for ah
whoa you see
my nitro stat helps me right away
but i talk too much i'll lie
a little down um
what about the storm windows alone you
can't now
how to do and i'm now too tired for this
maybe tomorrow will do impossible
i'm too busy i'll come out next i'll
come out
again next week ah then now
we must do it i'll
great have another heart attack look
you'll just have to pay a bit more
for a heart for heart a few days for heat
heat
for a few days longer [Music]
[Music]
so never mind darling always a pleasure
saved if you recall that was the that
was the name of the book
of that particular chapter chapter
uh chapter four so
as you can see the story is in fact
winding down what you see on the screen
is the final
volume two of
our presentation and reading of the classic
classic
it's a tale that is troubling
what needs to be told needs to be heard
and i hope at the very least
you can appreciate a personal story like this
that comes from
is if it's not heated
we're doomed to repeat let's hope that
inhumanity to our fellow humans
is something that we can leave in the
history books
well thank you for joining me
mr tony aka
the chap in the camp running out of hats
so i guess we're going to have to be
wrapping up the series anyway
thank you for joining me join me next
time two weeks from now
when we complete our final chapter
of mouse a survival of the survivor's tale
tale
volume 2 until then
see you next time you
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