They Were Forced Out of Their Home - Sidney Finkel

"Luke's father Eugene, they were forced out of their home, around 1942, and they were sent into a concentration camp as a matter of fact Eugene was in several concentration camps, together with his family. His wife and his two daughters and all his parents were murdered in the Holocaust. He was the only one who survived the war."

"Ah, my sister, I know a little bit more about her, she survived ah, the main thing was that in October of 1942 the Germans closed the ghetto, and they sent all the people on trains to a place called Treblinka where they were gassed. She was very industrious and very smart, and she was able to survive this huge round up, like I did and her brother and her father. She worked for a German economic unit, which was so called, but their job was to go through the belongings of people that left their homes and, and they would pack them up send them to Germany. When the ghetto was closed, she was sent to a concentration camp first in Poland, and then she went to another German concentration camp. She, she suffered a lot."

"I think she was liberated by the British Army, and she also went to this displaced persons camp, and that’s where Eugene, Luke’s father and Lola, Luke’s mother met and they, you know they got together. Eugene heard that his whole family was wiped out and after a year, they decided to get married."

People Are Smiling When They Have Their Masks On - Harold Jeffries

"It it's about, the whole thing is about laugh and fun and...people who are going  places to do things smile at their place. To do things over there. People are going to other places to do things because they don't have no shelter and having a lot of fun at the carnival that's why."

"Carnivals are fun for they're safe. They keep it so that nothing happens to you living. That's why. Cool."

The Legend of Sir Wayne - John Mazurek

 

"Our mother used to take us to museums a lot. She used to take us to a place on the North Side of Chicago, used to be on the Gold Coast area...and it was a house set up pretty much like a castle. It was full of suits of armor and bows and arrows, and long swords and broad blades, and all kinds of Medieval types of ah, weaponry and things. When we'd get home from being in that place, my brother would draw swords and weapons, and design crowns for kings, swords for princes, and arrows for the great bowmen that he could imagine fighting his imaginary battles."

"Okay, this is gonna be a short story about what a knight would do. He serves his, he serves his king very well. And of course, to become a knight, he must know himself. A hundred percent capable. I said, a knight must be able to fight for his country, and the king himself. And make sure, above all, be very kind towards females - well, the people who help the queen anyway."

                                                                                                                          Sir Wayne Mazurek