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Lindsay Burkett Mr. Neuburger English 102 13 March 2013 Video Review- Joseph Morton Joseph Morton (Mortkowitz) was born in Lodz, Poland on July 11, 1924. Born into a good sized family, he grew up with five brothers and one sister. His family resided in a small and crowded apartment containing only one master bedroom that the family would share. He explains humbly their evenings at home telling stories and describes the foods they enjoyed including fish, chopped liver and baked Jewish breads. The population of Lodz was majority Jewish and was later cultivated into one of the main Ghettos. With 250,000 Jews confined in this area by May 1940, Morton explains that this is when the real issues began. Starvation and selection were the most immediate signs of deterioration. Morton also details the horror of the Gestapo invading homes, beat the Jews, ripping sacred beards and kicking them. In September of 1944, Morton describes the transition from the closing of the Ghetto, the transport to Auschwitz and the gruesome details of what he witnessed. Morton confirmed being blessed through all it, explaining his whole family entered the long trail of cattle wagons together and alive. Morton, his father, and brother were able to work abroad in Germany and stay alive while others starved in camps. When Liberation was on the rise he was ill but managed to walk amongst the healthy to secure a spot for work. After Liberation, Morton was hospitalized where his father and brother found him after being displaced from each other. Going forward, they stuck together and worked. Morton came into freedom through Canada in 1948. Being a young person it was much easier to be accepted.

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Through a Canadian Jewish organization, he was tested for ability and trained for a skill. Finally, in November of 1948, he met his father in Chicago, met his wife and started his new life where he enjoy his three children and five grandchildren. *When asked how he survived he said, Luck, strictly luck. *They would always take people awayyou always lived in fear