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When I arrive in the camp
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The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm

When I arrive in the camp, they put this number

When I arrive in the camp, they put this number

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When I arrive in the camp,
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they put this number.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
15
Timestamp in Movie
00:12:13
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.
They didn’t call me my name; they called a number. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:05
They didn’t call me my name; they called a number.
When he was at the death camps, they were like slaves. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:05
When he was at the death camps, they were like slaves.
The Nazis made them dig holes just to make them work. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:05
The Nazis made them dig holes just to make them work.
If they did one little mistake and they got caught, - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:07
If they did one little mistake and they got caught,
We dig the ground, you know? - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:05
We dig the ground, you know?
You want to lay down and sleep, - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:06
You want to lay down and sleep,
On Sunday, they give you a piece of bread. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:05
On Sunday, they give you a piece of bread.
Skinny, my feet were skinny, - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:07
Skinny, my feet were skinny,
Srulek: The Germans started to lose the war, - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:08
Srulek: The Germans started to lose the war,
They took us, and we march. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:05
They took us, and we march.
For six months, walking, walking, - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:09
For six months, walking, walking,
Without food. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:05
Without food.
Elliott: Thousands and thousands of people just died. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:05
Elliott: Thousands and thousands of people just died.
If you stopped or, like, went off course-- - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:07
If you stopped or, like, went off course--
May 5, I was liberated by the Russians. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:06
May 5, I was liberated by the Russians.
When the Russians left, the Americans came in. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:06
When the Russians left, the Americans came in.
Elliott: After the war, he went back to his hometown. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:05
Elliott: After the war, he went back to his hometown.
In my hometown, I didn’t find nobody. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:05
In my hometown, I didn’t find nobody.
Elliott: He went to Germany, to live there, - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:09
Elliott: He went to Germany, to live there,
- ( foghorn blows ) - And then he went on a boat. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:05
- ( foghorn blows ) - And then he went on a boat.