Something has happened to me just about six months before the war, World War II
started. I was on a street at a very busy street traffic very heavy traffic and I
was waiting to cross the road and waiting for the lights [Interviewer] How
old are you at this time? [David] I was at the time I was about 12 and a half years old
about and I was waiting to cross over the road until the traffic passes. A boy
was pushing me and pushing me "damn Jew" (repeats it in Polish) and finally
he pushed me as a truck was coming he pushed me under a truck. I was hit very
very hard and I still remember I've never forgotten that there was a woman
screaming out "Why don't somebody call an ambulance
so the boy be taken the boy is in a very bad condition?" and so there's another man
there on the side Polish person he says "Well it's a Yid, it's a Jew it
doesn't matter let him die."