[T1S1] parents' background in Germany; number of his parents' family members that survived the Holocaust; his religious education; atmosphere in his parents' home; discussion of events in Germany in 1939; seizure of family business by Germans; his move to Poland; recollections of living in a Polish ghetto in 1940; his views about the power of hatred; recollections of family affluence before the war; the deaths of his brothers and sisters in the gas chamber.