Joseph Morton was born in Lodz Poland. His family
all lived in the same room but it was decent size with several beds, some were
shared. When he heard about the Hitler’s rise to power it started with hearing
from his parents of the harm that was done to the Jew’s. He also had an aunt
that had a sister who lived in Berlin who were kicked out of Germany and were
forced to come back to Lodz Poland. She wanted to go back and she did but she
was sent back to Poland. They were able to live in their same apartment. There wasn’t
any specified jobs in the ghettos. He heard that they were taking children from
the hospital and throwing them out of the windows and into a truck. He was separated
from his mother and some cousins. A US soldier liberated him but he was so sick
he could hardly register it. Some consequences he would suffer would be that he
would have to live on without his mother and he would never want to go back to
his hometown. He later moved to Canada with his brother. Later they moved to
the United States and met up with his father there. When they moved to Canada
the Jewish federation fed them and helped to support them while they were there
and tried to get used to it. They also taught him to be a cutter in the sewing
industry where now he cuts hair. They only stayed in Canada for about a year
and continued to live in Chicago with his father. His cousin went back to
Poland to live.
“They would go as far as the Jewish area and stopped
right there. If they went any further in they would get punished.”
“Being in the ghetto the starvation was very
tremendous.”
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