Norman Salsitz - Norman's legacy to survive
Transcript: Everybody had to have a legacy why to survive. And I had two legacies and two reasons. The first legacy was when my father was shot and I witnessed it...and after he was shot twice, he started to yell, "Nicoomen, Nicoomen, nem Nicoomen" means "Revenge, Revenge, Take Revenge" and this is ringing in my ears til today.
And the second legacy I had, when my mother was taken to Belzec to the death camps together with my 5 sisters and with the grandchildren, somehow from the transport, from the Oonshatplatz, she could give out a note, a letter to me. I was at this time in the labor camp. She said to me "You are my youngest child. You are young. You are strong. You are smart. If somebody would survive, it would probably be you. Go ahead. Survive. Let what you are orphan, let it not break you. But survive and go after the war, go to the world and tell the world what the German murderers did to us."