Holocaust Survivor Joseph Morton

I watched Joseph Morton survivor story he was born in 1924 in Lodz, Poland. He talks about having a fairly normal early childhood hood, he had 5 brothers and 1 sister. They all lived in a small one bedroom apartment and some of the young children shared a bed with the parents. He grew up in a very traditional, way his family celebrated holidays and the Sabbath. Then he starts to talk about when the war started he said it all started very quickly, the war began on a Wednesday and that Friday the Germans were already marched in and had taken over. They made all the Jews walk down to the market place and see the bodies they had already hung of people who disobeyed them just to show their power. He then goes on describing the Ghetto and how they crammed so many people in this area and all the hunger problems there were that everyone was starving there were only a few lucky enough to not have problems getting food. He mentions that there was also a smaller Ghetto for Gypsy's and at night they would heard shots being fired. At one point he and his family was told that they were going to go do different jobs. Once they arrived at Ashfits that was the end of his family, they separated everyone randomly. He, his father, and his brother were all placed in the same spot his mother and the rest of his siblings were sent away. He was lucky to have been in very good physical condition so he was able to fight off disease in the Ghetto. He did get sick for a period of time but was able to fight it off. They fixed American military jeeps, and electrical work. He was lucky enough to be given the chance to move to Canada. He still does not know what happen to his mother and other siblings. His father latter joined him and his brother in the states.

"they would grab people they took them away we didn't know where some of them they tortured I'm shamed to say it they would take them to places where they had barrels of crap I should say shit and they made them put their faces in those barrels."