Morris Zaidband, Edward Spett and Mania Kay were children when the Germans occupied Oświęcim and began persecuting its inhabitants. Listen to their testimonies to understand how the German Nazis discriminated against the Jewish residents of Oświęcim.
Morris Zaidband was born in Oświęcim in 1912 in an Orthodox Jewish family as Maurycy Zajdband. His father was a councilman of the town of Oświęcim and he ran a shop. He survived the ghettos in Będzin and Sosnowiec, as well as the concentration and extermination camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Landsberg, Landshut, Mühldorf, and Annaberg. After the war he emigrated to the USA, he settled in New York. He worked as a jeweler in a few jeweler’s shops selling diamond jewelry, and then he opened his own jeweler’s shop. He was interviewed on Apr. 23, 1997 in Rockville, Maryland, U.S.A.
Mania Kay was born in Oświęcim in 1920 as Mania Miriam Bodner in a not very wealthy Orthodox Jewish family. Her father was a vegetable and fruit merchant. She survived the Sosnowiec ghetto, the Auschwitz II - Birkenau death camp and concentration camps: Bobrek, Gleiwitz and Bergen-Belsen. After the war she emigrated to Canada. She settled in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada along with her husband. She had two daughters: Molly and Shirley. She was interviewed on Sept. 5, 1995 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
After watching the video, write what kind of restrictions were the Jewish residents of the town forced to face.