NHD Annotation # 1 New Topic

Interview with Itka Zygmuntowicz
Neal Rose / N. Rose Locksmith
November 22, 2008

Please Note - This Interview was Impromptu and no dialougue was recorded. This is a primary source because I am doing this annotation based on the information given by Neal Rose, my father.

My father is a locksmith. He recived a call on Nov. 20,2008 to go out to a house in the northeast section of the city. When he arrived he was greeted by a little old lady named Itka. Itka's purse had been stolen and her keys were in her purse. She wanted my dad to change the locks so that the person who stole her purse would not have access to her house. My dad changed the locks and Itka was happy. My dad was compensated and my dad left. On November 22, 2008, Itka called again. She claimed that she was having trouble with the new lock. My dad went back to her house. After examineing her lock, my dad concluded that the lock was in the same condition than it was before. She said that my dad might have broke the lock. My dad said it works fine. Again, Itka said it was not working. She said this some more. My dad started to get angry. She argued with my dad some more. After a few minutes of argueing, Itka put her hand on my dads sholder and said " we should not argue, no one is right." She also said that she has been through so much fighting that she did not wan to fight anymore. Itka then rolled her sleve up and revealed numbers that were tattoooed on her. She said that she was a Jewish person that was born in born in Poland in 1926. In 1941, when Itka was 15 years old, the Nazi troops took Itka and her family to the Auschwitz aoncentration death camp. Theese numbers signified what the Nazis called her. She had a way of calming my dad down.
This Interview has helped my project because it shows how a person who has had so much pain in her life could still cherish life as much as she did.