HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR ELMER MARMORSTEIN AIA (1 of 2) DAVID FREER INTERVIEWED

(1) On April 11, 2010, Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoa) high school teacher DAVID FREER gives an intro to the interview he conducted 15 years prior. (2) On February 17, 1995 his dad RICHARD FREER gives a preview. (3) HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR ELMER MARMORSTEIN, AIA, interviewed by David Freer, HS sophomore, for his Advanced Placement European History class. David had asked his brother Jonathan and his father Richard for an idea for a project. His dad mentioned that his friend Elmer Marmorstein AIA, bore a tattoo on his forearm from Nazi concentration camps, where he was imprisoned from May 1944 to May 1945. Fifty years have elapsed. Elmer, a low-key and non ostentatious hard-working man, graciously consented. David prepared 20 questions, eg place of birth (Transylvania, Rumania), age (65), work assignments (eg hauling trash in wagons and other menial tasks), Schindler's List, diet, coping mechanisms. Soup, bread, and coffee was all they received to eat. Along with the Jews, the inmates were comprised of criminal and left-wing Germans, gypsies, Russians, deaf, and insane people. As the Russian troops approached Germany from the east in January of '45, the Nazis moved them out westward. Initially Elmer and his brother and parents were transported to a ghetto in western Hungary. He only expected to work, and did not suspect trouble. The first frame shows elderly men on the street of the shtetl, waiting in line to have their papers stamped by a nazi officer. Some escaped ...