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The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm

And they sent usto the ghetto

And they sent us
to the ghetto

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And they sent us to the ghetto.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
20
Timestamp in Movie
00:07:03
Uploaded
Oct 28, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
HBO

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Movie Summary

When ten-year-old Elliott asks his 90-year-old great-grandfather, Jack, about the number tattooed on his arm, he sparks an intimate conversation about Jack’s life that spans happy memories of childhood in Poland, the loss of his family, surviving Auschwitz and finding a new life in America.
Elliott: The ghetto was a little area - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:09
Elliott: The ghetto was a little area
15 or 20 people sleeping in one room. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:07
15 or 20 people sleeping in one room.
Elliott: They lost their homes, they lost their possessions, - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:09
Elliott: They lost their homes, they lost their possessions,
What happened after you were in the ghetto? - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:05
What happened after you were in the ghetto?
I was walking with my friends - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:07
I was walking with my friends
I was young-- 14. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:05
I was young-- 14.
Then the Germans with a car pull up, - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:11
Then the Germans with a car pull up,
My mother and father-- - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:07
My mother and father--
My mother, she didn’t come because she was heartbroken. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:06
My mother, she didn’t come because she was heartbroken.
My father came in, he say like that, "Good-bye." - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:11
My father came in, he say like that, "Good-bye."
We don’t know what will happen to us over here." - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:07
We don’t know what will happen to us over here."
I never saw him. I never knew it what happened. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:06
I never saw him. I never knew it what happened.
I never knew what happened to my mother and my father. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:06
I never knew what happened to my mother and my father.
Elliott: The Nazis wanted to take over all of Europe. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:06
Elliott: The Nazis wanted to take over all of Europe.
( gunfire, explosions ) - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:08
( gunfire, explosions )
They planned to kill every single Jewish person in Europe. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:06
They planned to kill every single Jewish person in Europe.
Scare me? Sure, they scared me. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:05
Scare me? Sure, they scared me.
I always hope I go see my parents again. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:06
I always hope I go see my parents again.
( baby crying ) - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:09
( baby crying )
Elliott: When the Nazis captured you from the ghetto, - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:07
Elliott: When the Nazis captured you from the ghetto,