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The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm

When I was inFallsbruck labor camp, my father sent methis hat

When I was in
Fallsbruck labor camp, my father sent me
this hat

Full Transcript

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When I was in Fallsbruck labor camp,
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my father sent me this hat.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
16
Timestamp in Movie
00:10:35
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.
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?
When I got it, I open up and I found the money right there. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:07
When I got it, I open up and I found the money right there.
You couldn’t buy nothing in the camp. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:06
You couldn’t buy nothing in the camp.
So I took the money out - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:12
So I took the money out
Great-Poppy says the extra food and stuff that he got from the money - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:09
Great-Poppy says the extra food and stuff that he got from t...
Srulek: Finally, they send me to Auschwitz. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:06
Srulek: Finally, they send me to Auschwitz.
Elliott: Auschwitz was a death camp or concentration camp. - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:06
Elliott: Auschwitz was a death camp or concentration camp.
Concentration camp was a place - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:10
Concentration camp was a place
And they had guards around the electric fence, with guns, - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:07
And they had guards around the electric fence, with guns,
When I arrive in the camp, - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:07
When I arrive in the camp,
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,