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Maus Chapter 4 | Rebecca Smith | YouTubeToText
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This content is a deeply personal and harrowing account of a father's experiences during the Holocaust, detailing the escalating persecution of Jews in his town, the constant struggle for survival, and the devastating loss of family members.
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Titans wooden hanger new trench coat
you're late no I'm not I said I'd be by
after dinner but now it's dark out I
wanted you would climb to the roof it's
a leak in the drain pipe huh but I'm no
good at fixing that kind of stuff why
don't you hire somebody ah you and Mala
you both think money grows on bushes
I'll fix it myself that's crazy you
can't climb a two-story ladder in your
condition if you want I'll pay for the
handyman never mind forget I said
anything just come sit with me I have to
Pedal otherwise I get at night a leg
cramp what you're holding a new tape
recorder writing things down is just too
hard so how much you paid only 75 bucks
it was on
sale at Corvettes you could find it for
a maximum
$35 but skip it tell me about when you
got back from the p camp in
1940 when first I came home it looked
exactly so as before I went away it was
still very luxurious the Germans
couldn't destroy everything at one
time it was 12 of us living in
father-in-law's household it was Ana and
me and our boy Reve Ana's older sister
Tasha her husband wolf and their little
girl bibe and it was Ana's grandparents
they had maybe 90 years but very alert
and of course it was my father-in-law
and my mother-in-law and also the two
kids from your uncle Herman and Aunt
Helen LC and
Lona Herman and Hela were lucky they
were visiting the New York World's Fair
when the war came this saved
them ah grandmother your stew is even
tastier than I remembered no it's not
like before the war of ladic I can't get
the foods I need each of us gets coupons
for 8 ounces of bread a day and it's a
tiny bit of margarine sugar and jam per
week that's all so how do we
manage I've donated a lot to the Gand
the Jewish Community organization and
wolf works there so we get a little
extra and there's the black market with
money you can always get anything it's
dangerous though the Nazis take you off
to a work camp for breaking any minor
law worse even if you don't break any
laws and those that are taken away
they're never seen
again well we should be happy we're all
together with enough to eat but me we
must really tighten our belts until the
war ends come let's play Ry while the
ladies clear the
table has the family been talking taking
good care of my bco textile Factory
don't you know all Jewish businesses
have been taken over by Aryan managers
I went to our Factory in LS and they
said better go home today old man
tomorrow we'll carry you out
what but it isn't any money coming in
not a single's Lotty and the family
wants to live the way it did before the
war okay vladic cut the cards but wolf
what kind of work are you doing just a
little office work for the G but a few
months ago father-in-law took all his
valuables home from the bank safe how
long can saving last don't worry so much
vadic you'll see the war will be over
like lightning yeah like lightning ah
wolf looked only to play
cards I went the next day to modra Jaa
Street where people still made money
from Secret businesses not so
legal food coupons for Reich Mars vladic
spiegelman Mr elzaki what are you doing
in swick Ozaki used to be a customer of
mine the best tailor in
cata the Nazis moved me to an apartment
here I make uniforms for their officers
and it's and Suits on the side when I
can get the cloth are you still in
business I don't know I just got back
from war prison well if you get any
cloth come see me this note will get you
past the doorman the note told that I
worked with him such a paper could be
useful to
have I went then to shop
what still owed me money from before the
war but I can't pay you a German runs my
place now I'm lucky just to have a job
then Advance me a few yards of material
without coupons okay okay hide this
under your clothes Mr ili please so I
made a nice fuse lotes the very first
week I came home I remember
father-in-law was so happy with me you
see at least there's one smart guy in
the family of course I only said I got
half what I really made otherwise they
wouldn't save
anything a little later I was again on
mandra Jaa looking to buy some textiles
without coupons the SS closed off the
whole street to inspect the working
papers from everyone I didn't know
before about this I managed to disappear
to a building but they took maybe 50% of
the people
away I talked about it to father-in-law
they almost got me I'll need more than
just IL zaki's note that's true come
we'll visit a friend of mine who owns a
tin shop I think his overseer can be
bribed and so it went okay vladic since
we make things for Germany we can get
you a priority work card remember if
there's a Roundup in here run if there's
a Roundup run in here and pretend you're
working I learned here to do things what
were useful to me when I came to owitz
owitz
and so we lived for more than a year but
always things came a little worse a
little worse father-in-law had a nice
new bedroom set the Germans looked to
grab such Furniture because in stores it
wasn't any more to get wolf and aish
left everything valuable downstairs for
a Polish neighbor to hide oof are we
leaning the other bed upstairs leaving
yeah mother-in-law is too sick she needs
a good bed Ana's mother had gallstones
the day the Germans came she lay in the bed
bed
please don't take her bed look at how
sick she is the doctor is here every
day father-in-law had an old friend who
came always over to play cards and they
left without taking anything you know I
met a German official who would pay well
for a bedroom set hidden we had no use
from the furniture so we slept it again
upstairs to sell you have excellent
taste in Furniture here zberg thank you
my men will be right back to get your
your wife's bed too you cheated us last
time Jew wait I haven't been paid yet
please if you want to stay alive go back
inside he was so unhappy after so
unhappy one time I was going to see eki
this was late in 1941 I think his house
was very near to a train station and it
was going on there something terrible I
had to pass near and they were grabbing
Jews if they had ERS or no what had I to
do will I walk slowly they will take me
will I run they can shoot me then from
far I saw IL Zaki walking so I went
Hasty over to him hello Mr spiegelman
what are you doing here don't you see
what's going on quick come upstairs with
me until the trains leave eleki lived in
a very fancy house he was the only Jew
there so I sat with him and his wife a
good few hours we heard shooting and
time eleki had a son the same age like
rief if you only could see how those
children played together listen vadic we
can't know what's going to happen to us
but we must keep our children safe I
have a good friend a pole who's willing
to hide my son until the situation gets
better I think he'd take your boy too
yes you may be right let me speak with my
my
family but I'm telling you it was
something terrible going on in our house
when I even mentioned it what have you
gone crazy how can you even think of
giving Rashi up to complete strangers
I'll never give up my baby never yeki
and his wife didn't come out from the
war but his son remained alive ours did
not and anyway anyway we had to give
later when we were in the ghetto in 1943
Tasha took all the children to wait
please Dad if you don't keep your story
chronological I'll never get it straight
tell me more about 1941 and
1942 so okay I'll make it so how you
want it 1941 at the end of 1941 the
Germans came with something new wolf ran
from the Gander look they're putting
these up all over town order all Jews of
swick must be relocated into the stara
sasu quarter by January 1st 1942
non-jews will be moved into vacated
premises all 12 of our household were
given now to live in two and a half
small rooms reward for every
unregistered Jew you find one kilo of
sugar most people got even less space
face but father-in-law and wolf had a little
little
influence but this wasn't yet a real
ghetto still you could go into other
parts of town so long you were home at
nighttime hold the ladder Ana I'm
putting up a curtain to give us some
privacy Tasha insisted on getting the
part of the room with the window it
doesn't matter vladic I'm just glad the
whole family can stay together it was no
more the luxury life we had
before for a couple months I did hear
still my black market business then came
more bad news very bad what's wrong
father they just arrested my friend naom
con and his son they've taken four Jews
away for dealing Goods without coupons I
did much business with Cohen the Germans
intended to make an example of them the
next day we walked I walked over to MRA
josa street street and I saw them they
hanged there there one full week Cohen
had a dry goods store he was known all
over snock often he gave me cloth with
no coupons I traded also with beffer a
fine young man a Zionist he was just
married his wife ran screaming into the
street I was frightened to go outside
for a few days I didn't want to pass
where they were hanging and maybe one of
them could have talked to me talked of
me to the Germans to try to save himself
AK when I think now of them it still
makes me cry look even from my dead eye
tears are coming
out what was Anya doing around this time
houseworks and knitting reading and she
was writing always her
diary I used to see polish notebooks
around the house as a kid were those her
Diaries yes and also no her Diaries
didn't survive from the war what you saw
she wrote after her whole story from the
start oh my God where are they I need
those for this book cough please Arty
stop with the smoking it makes me short of
of
breath I think it's all your pedaling
don't be so smart what was I telling you
yes after the hanging I looked for
another business I started to trade gold
and jewelry it was easier to hide than
clothings I kept things hidden in the
child's stroller and I made a few zotes
for a while I had also a food business
that I didn't yet tell you I met scari
he had a big grocery in madra Jaa you're zberg
zberg
son son-in-law right come inside and
wait for the rain to stop so together we
sat and spoke and he helped from time to
time a customer sorry you don't have
enough coupons to buy half a kilo of
sugar still she went out with half a
kilo I think I smelled I could arrange
something then a little more we spoke
and he made to me a proposition maybe
you could sell my extra items to small
shops in the area under the counter it
was dangerous to carry these things but
maybe I could be lucky when someone is
hungry he looks for business one time I
had 10 or 15 kilos sugar to deliver halt
Jo what are you carrying what was I
supposed to say for this I could read
really hang
sugar I'm taking it over to my grocery
store oh you have a shop I made so they
would think it was legal I went to the
back door where I had to deliver open up
P deck I've got our sugar and they left
papers but when we came to Star SAS all
my businesses became harder it was not
so easy to move around the Tin Shop
finished the owner was the only Jew they
let work there I got then a job in a
German carpentry shop father-in-law and
lck worried already there worked already
there for really no money I didn't need
this before but now I had to have the
workpaper wolf could have arranged me a
job at the gym end but I didn't want to
put my hands there where Jews were being
taken and then it came again something
new from the Germans we got a notice all
Jews over 70 years old will be
transferred to theresian stad in
Czechoslovakia on May 10th 1942 a
community better prepared to take care
of the elderly than ours in
swick it doesn't look too bad like a
convalescent home Ana's grandparents had
about 90 years we've been together a
family for 70 years we don't want to
break apart now don't worry we won't let
them take you we didn't yet know of
alitz of the ovens but we were anyway
afraid so in the yard we made a hiding
place a bunker cutaway view storage
sheds FAL wall
grandparents we sneaked food to them and
when it was safe we took them inside a
little several times came the Jewish
police to our house our records show
that Mr and miss Mrs Caro live here they
haven't registered for transfer yes my
wife's parents they left without a word
a month ago Jewish police yes with Big
Sticks some Jews thought in this way if
they gave to the Germans a few Jews they
could save the rest and at least they
could save
themselves and a month after they again
came to father-in-law Mr zy zberg you
and your wife must come with us if the
caros don't turn up in 3 days you two
place he had still a little protection
from the gind so they took only him away
not his wife he sat a few days there
then he sent to us a note he wrote that
we had to give over the grandparents
even if they took only him away now next
they would grab his wife and then the
rest of the family so what happened what
happened we had to deliver them they
thought it was
to thei and stad they were going let us
know if you need anything but they went
gas when did you first hear about owitz
right away we heard even from there from
that other world people came back and
told us but we didn't believe then the
same news came more and more so we
believed and later on we saw even worse
after what happened to the grandparents
it was a few months quiet then came
posters everywhere and speeches from the
gint fellow juice on Wednesday August
12th every one of you young and old male
and female healthy and sick must
register at the dened stadium oh no now
what there's no cause for alarm it's
only a matter of inspecting your
documents and stamping them this will
protect you as citizens of the region
not going it's a Nazi trap everybody was
worried and our Jewish committee is
helping those murderers Gods know what
God knows what will happen to us at the
stadium well they just inspected Jewish
documents in some nearby towns it was no
big deal anyway we've got to go without
legal papers we're lost to go it was no
good but not to go it was also no
good my father he had 62 years came by
street car to me from DEA The Village
next door from swick here's a cookie
Reeve Aunt FAA baked it for you say
thank you to
Grandpa after my mother died with cancer
he lived there in the house of my sister
phala and her four small children I need
your advice vadic should I go to the
stadium on Wednesday or hide at home I
don't know I'm not even sure what we're
going to do Ana's mother says she isn't
going she's sick and Afraid at least
Ana's father lolik and I all work at the
German wood shop we're a little safer
but you don't work you have no papers
you don't have
anything well our cousin morai says
he'll be at one of the inspection tables
I could bring my papers to him what does
Phila say she's not sure but if phala
decides to go of course I'll go with her
can I have another cookie Reeve really I
didn't know how to to advise him but
finally he did go people were afraid to
not show up so it came to the stadium
almost all the Jews of swick and from
the other Villages near maybe 25 or 30,000
30,000
people Everyone came very nice dressed
and they tried so that they would look
young and able to work in order to get a
good stamp on their
passport when we were everybody inside
gestapo with machines guns surrounded
the stadium line up by family at the
tables to register quickly then was a
selection with people sent either to the
left either to the right old people
families with lots of kids and people
without work cards are all going left we
understood this must be very bad me and
Ana came to the table where my cousin
was sitting ah you work at the carpentry
shop go to the right so we got stamped
on our passports and came quick to the
good side of the stadium those who were
sent left they didn't get any
stamp we were so happy we came through
but we worried now were our family safe
look there's Papa with lolic and lonia
we saw wolf and Tasha our family seems
to be okay did you see my father I
couldn't see anywhere my father but
later someone who saw him told me he
came through this same cousin over the
good side spiegelman to the right then
came fa to register her they sent to the
left four children was too many
F my daughter how can she manage alone
with four children to take care of and
what do you think he sneaked to the bad
side and those on the bad side never
came anymore home those with a stamp
were let to go home but there were very
few Jews now left in
snock one from three they kept at the
stadium maybe 10,000 people
and with them my father well it's enough
for today yes
Arty oo I overdid a little I'm feeling
dizzy maybe you should lie down a while
are you finished uh-huh my father's worn
out he's taking a nap he was just
telling me that about the time everyone
in swick had to get his passport stamped
in the stadium yes they got my mother
then she was taken with everybody else
who was going to be deported to four
apartment houses that were emptied to
make a sort of prison they put thousands
of people there it was so crowded that
some of them actually suffocated no food
no toilets it was terrible people jumped
out of the windows to end their misery a
little quicker God but my mother
survived that her brother was on the
Jewish committee and he hid her in a
coal Cellar till the transports left
when he got me a job scrubbing the
people's filth vomit excrement out of
several apartments and I managed to
smuggle her
out eventually she and my father both
ended up in owitz they died there where
are you going you didn't drink your
coffee I just thought of something my
father mentioned that ANA used to keep a
diary and I vaguely remember seeing them
in his shelves in the den I doubt it I
would have noticed them well there's so
much junk in there it's worth a shot
look at all this stuff old menus he
picked up on cruises a pile of
stationary from the Pines Motel
incredible four 1965 dry do Savings Bank
calendars I'll bet he never even had an
account there he drives me crazy he
won't even let me throw out the plastic
pitcher he took from his hospital room
last year he's more attached to things
than to people I really don't know how
long I can take him I really
don't I better be getting home I'll look
for those Diaries next time wait put
everything back exactly like it was or
I'll never hear the end of it okay okay relax
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