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Fifth of six consecutive files of an interview with Emanuel "Mundek" Elbinger in Krakow, 24 May 2016. Elbinger continues his wartime account of hiding in the Brest (?) area and the loss of his mother, then talks about his postwar return and move to Krakow, his schooling and engineering career, and his father's Zionism. He ends by singing Yiddish songs and mentioning the Yiddish poet Mordechai Gebirtig.
Elbinger recounts hiding with his mother, father and sisters in Polish villages near Brest (?) and Wozisk (?), where the family paid for shelter and food. His mother was recognised and sought, so he was dressed as a girl and sent to a local community secretary for goods. He was recognised by three boys he had gone with to school, escaped by running fast, and returned to the hiding place. A burial site with about 650 Jews is mentioned.
Asked by Kerler whether they hid in a cellar, Elbinger says it was an attic. He describes overhearing the farmers' talk of killing the family, and his mother finding another poor house with a stable. He tells of a Jew from a nearby village who gave bread, of his mother going to fetch it and never coming back after partisans took her, and that the Jew's six-year-old child was shot. He mentions that he wrote his story for Children of the Holocaust and that Jews were also murdered after the war.
Elbinger tells of postwar events: sick children taken to Rabka (?), the Russians' 1944 offensive and the liberation of Auschwitz, and the return with his father and sister to Kobrzysk (?), where a family of Jehovah's Witnesses had sheltered Jews. His father went to the Jewish committee in Krakow and they travelled by horse-drawn cart. Kerler asks the date of a photograph, which Elbinger puts at 1945.
He shows a photograph of himself in Zakopane in American-supplied uniforms and speaks of postwar schooling. He attended a Jewish school in Krakow, took the matura, and gave lessons in maths and physics. He then studied at a technical academy and became an electrical engineer.
Elbinger explains that he did not emigrate to Israel because his father, a Zionist, was ill with tuberculosis and refused to be left. He tells of relatives in Belgium named Finkelstein (?) in the diamond trade with a colony in the Congo, and a pious relative who hid cigars on the Sabbath. These relatives survived the war in America and speak Yiddish. He describes his activity at the Krakow Jewish community centre, his many operations and his Friday visits.
Elbinger tells how a Krakow rabbi persuaded him to sing, and then sings Yiddish songs: the welcome song "Lomir ale in eynem", a homecoming song, a lament about lost good years, and part of the partisan song "Zog nit keyn mol". He speaks of the poet Mordechai Gebirtig and a film about him made by Yiddish speakers from Germany, and sings Gebirtig's "S'brent". He says he knows Polish, Russian and German songs too.