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The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm

You want to lay downand sleep, they call you

You want to lay down
and sleep, they call you

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You want to lay down and sleep,
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they call you.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
21
Timestamp in Movie
00:13:10
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.
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.
When he got to America, the funny thing is, - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:11
When he got to America, the funny thing is,
Man: This is the only place that we know - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:06
Man: This is the only place that we know
So therefore, if anybody’s hungry, he will feed them, - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:06
So therefore, if anybody’s hungry, he will feed them,
Elliott: His stories have, like, changed a lot of people-- - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:08
Elliott: His stories have, like, changed a lot of people--
You need to know it to understand, - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:07
You need to know it to understand,
Elliott: They say in, like, a year or two - The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 00:11
Elliott: They say in, like, a year or two