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The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm

I was walkingwith my friends on the street

I was walking
with my friends on the street

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I was walking with my friends
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on the street.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
15
Timestamp in Movie
00:08:01
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.
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,
( hinges creak ) - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:08
( hinges creak )
When I was in Fallsbruck labor camp, - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:08
When I was in Fallsbruck labor camp,
My father did a lot of business with the German people, - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:09
My father did a lot of business with the German people,
I knew it-- why he sent me the-- the hat. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:06
I knew it-- why he sent me the-- the hat.
Right here he put the money in, you see? - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:06
Right here he put the money in, you see?