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Content SURVIVAL

by

Michael Green

A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(BROADCAST JOURNALISM)

May 2011

Copyright 2011 Michael Green

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Table of Contents

Abstract……………………………………………………………………………... iii
Survival Script……………………………………………………………………… 1
Bibliography……………………………………………………………………..…. 16

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Abstract

Adele and Bernie Green grew up in the same small town of Zamosc, Poland. But before
the two could meet, the Holocaust began, tearing both of their families apart. After
surviving one of the worst atrocities in global history, Adele and Bernie were given the
opportunity to begin a new life with one another upon immigrating to the United States.

This documentary traces the path that Adele and Bernie took from growing up in Zamosc
through surviving the Holocaust, and ultimately meeting and starting a family in New
York. Throughout the film, experts from the University of Southern California, Moriah
Films and the USC Shoah Foundation offer their insight into what Adele and Bernie
experienced.

The purpose of this story is to present a personal account of what survivors experienced
during the Holocaust. Beyond this, however, the documentary is meant to provide a look
into life after survival. This thesis is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust
and its survivors.

Michael
Green

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SURVIVAL

VO NARRATOR

- Home video of Adele
and Bernie preparing
and having family
dinner.

1 ADELE AND BERNIE GREEN HAVE ALWAYS

MADE THE MOST OUT OF WHAT LIFE HAS

GIVEN THEM. SINCE IMMIGRATING TO THE

UNITED STATES AFTER WWII THEY LIVED A

RELATIVELY UNEXTRAORDINARY LIFE –

TWO CHILDREN, A MODEST HOME IN THE

BRONX AND JUST ENOUGH MONEY TO MAKE

ENDS MEET. THEIR SITAUTION MIRRORED

THAT OF MANY JEWISH IMMIGRANTS AT

THE TIME. BUT THE PATH THAT ADELE AND

BERNIE FOLLOWED TO THE SHORES OF

AMERICA WAS ANYTHING BUT ORDINARY.

SOT ADELE AND
BERNIE GREEN

- Sequence of Adele
and Bernie looking
through family photo
album
2

The man I told you…My friend that brought the
American to… (Bernie)

Also, he survived together (Adele).

Yeah, all survived together (Bernie).

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SOT ADELE GREEN

- Adele showing to
photos of herself
3 And here’s another picture. That’s me and here is the
lady that I worked for, Emma Kaiser…That’s me and
that’s my very good German friend that I worked in
the office and also in her father’s office who was the
mayor of the village.
VO NARRATOR

- Adele and Bernie
looking through photo
album together
4 ADELE AND BERNIE WERE BOTH BORN AND

RAISED IN ZAMOSC, POLAND – A TOWN OF

ABOUT 30,000 PEOPLE AND 7,000 JEWS.

Interview with Bernie Green
SOT BERNIE GREEN

- Bernie looking
through photo album
5 Growing up I was quiet, but happy and we were a
little above the standard of living. I was the one
before the youngest, we were eight children.
SOT ADELE GREEN

- Adele looking
through photo album
6 It was a happy childhood, even so we were not
wealthy, but very loving. Loving parents, sisters,
brothers and of course extended family. I am the
seventh child, we are a big family. Four brothers and
four sisters.
SOT ADELE GREEN

- Sequence of Adele
showing old
newspaper clipping of
Zamosc
7 It’s the main square and town hall of Zamosc. In fact,
my aunt lived in one of those buildings, and when I
was visiting her I used to stand on the balcony and
just look and admire the beauty all around.

SOT WOLF GRUNER
CG: Professor of
History
University of Southern
California
8 There approximately lived 3.2 to 3.5 million Jewish
inhabitants in Poland. A lot of them lived very
assimilated in big towns, but there were a lot of them,
more orthodox, living in small towns and villages.
Sometimes providing more than half the inhabitants
of these smaller towns.
VO NARRATOR

- Sequence of Adele
and Bernie having
coffee together
9 ADELE AND BERNIE GREW UP KNOWING OF

EACH OTHER’S FAMILIES. BUT THE

HOLOCAUST WOULD INTERVENE BEFORE

THE TWO COULD EVER MEET FACE TO FACE.

Michael
Green

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Interviews with Adele and Bernie Green

SOT BERNIE GREEN

- German tanks,
marching, airplanes
bombing and buildings
on fire

10 The war broke out in September 1, 1939 and by
November 8, airplanes came and they bombed out
part of the city. And everything went down in flames
and we remained without anything.
SOT AVIVA
WEINSTEIN
CG: Associate
Producer
Moriah Films
11 The things that is portrayed, or that we see in so
much of the Nazi film footage is just the mass
amounts of soldiers and how it just raised, instilled
fear in people, but also was great propaganda
material just to show people around the world,
around Europe the force that Hitler and his armies
had.
SOT BERNARD
GREEN

- Footage of open
ghetto
- Identification checks
12 What the Germans did, they made a ghetto when they
came in, and they called it an open ghetto. There
were no fences, but we had to have identification and
they took us to work.
SOT WOLF GRUNER

13 In the beginning you have a lot of localities, which
were so-called open ghettos, so there were no walls,
not fences, but people were not allowed to move
freely. And at a later stage in 1941, in most places
these ghettos were sealed, more people were from the
countryside were brought into this cities.
VO NARRATOR

- Jews working in
labor camps

14 ASIDE FROM THREE OLDER SIBLINGS WHO

ESCAPED TO THE SOVIET UNION, BERNIE

AND HIS ENTIRE FAMILY WERE FORCED TO

WORK IN THE OPEN GHETTO.

Interview conducted with Bernie Green
VO BERNIE GREEN

- Sequence of Germans
rounding up Jews and
sending them to gas
15 In 1942 they decided to liquidate all the Jews, so they
took the Jews to the gas chambers and killed them all.
And when they lined us up to take us to the gas
chambers my little brother tried to escape, so they
shot him right through the back and the bullet came
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chambers
- Shots of gas
chambers
out the front and he was all bleeding. He raised up his
shirt, it was terrible bleeding and while I was trying
to help him, an SS man came, and he shot him right
in the head.
VO STEPHEN
SMITH
CG: Executive
Director
USC Shoah
Foundation
16 Well, the Nazis’ attempt to murder the Jews of
Europe was a very…It was about the obfuscation of
memory. So their intent was not only to murder the
Jews, but to wipe out the memory of the fact that they
even existed at all.
VO NARRATOR

-Close up photo album
shots of Adele’s family
- Adele looking at
photo album

17 BEFORE THE WAR BROKE OUT, ADELE’S

PARENTS AND TWO OLDEST BROTHERS HAD

IMMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES;

HOPING THE REST OF THE FAMILY COULD

LATER FOLLOW. BUT, WITH ZAMOSC UNDER

SEIGE, ADELE AND HER REMAINING

SIBLINGS WERE FORCED TO FEND FOR

THEMSELVES.

Interview conducted with Adele Green
SOT ADELE GREEN

- Refugees wandering
- Map of Ukraine
- Germans entering
burning towns
18 I can imagine how difficult it was for my parents to
part with the rest of their children. But they wanted to
make a better life. So we decided to make our way
east and so we wound up in the Ukraine. And my
brothers managed to support us. But this lasted a
short time. Two years later, the same thing, the
Germans attacked the Soviet Union and we wound up
under the Germans again.
SOT WOLF GRUNER

19 A free movement was more or less forbidden for
Jews, so they could actually leave ghettos only for
work purposes, but there was always, let’s say,
among the Jewish population, the intent to try to, first
of all, individually escape, but also, for resistant
purposes, people tried to get out of the ghetto to
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contact other ghettos, to get information about what
was going on, to smuggle food into the ghetto. So
there were attempts to leave the ghetto, but it was
really hard, especially from the moment on when
ghettos were sealed off with fences and barbed wires
and were guarded by the police forces.
SOT ADELE GREEN

- Germans bombing
towns
- Germans raiding
burning towns
20 The first thing they did, just like in 1939, they were
bombing the Jewish sections. We went into hiding in
a village with another family. And on the way back to
our town, the German SS was all over and they right
away took away my two brothers and, from the other
family, also the three men. We never saw them again.
They killed them.
SOT AVIVA
WEINSTEIN

21 I think a lot of it is brainwashing, a lot of it is
instilling fear and terror in the minds of, whether it be
the Nazis, the Germans, the Ukrainians carried out
massacres, the Poles carried out massacres, turning
their neighbors in. To me, it’s inexplicable
VO NARRATOR

- Shots of Majdanek
ghettos

22
MEANWHILE, BERNIE FOUND HIMSELF

WORKING AS A CARPENTER IN MAJDANEK,

A CONCENTRATION CAMP LOCATED ALONG

THE OUTSKIRTS OF LUBLIN, POLAND.

Interview conducted with Bernie Green

SOT BERNIE GREEN

- Shots of German SS
speaking to Jews and
checking identification
- Sequence of
bricklayers
- Shots of Auschwitz

23 In Majdanek came an SS man and picked out Jews
that were still able to work. So they picked me out
and sent me away to Auschwitz.

Michael
Green

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SOT WOLF GRUNER

24 We don’t know the exact number of Jewish inmates
in Auschwitz because it developed over time. It was
kind of growing from a small, very much ordinary
concentration camp, into this huge extermination
camp, which is placed in a separate space and is
called Auschwitz-Birkenau. And, even more, there
was an extension, a big labor camp, which was called
Auschwitz Monowitz. So estimations are that during
the years of 1942 to 1944, more or less 1.1 million
Jews were killed. Some people say the number is
bigger, up to 1.5 million.
SOT BERNIE GREEN

- Footage of
Auschwitz
- Bricklaying footage.
25 In Auschwitz, they asked for carpenters, so they took
me out to build barracks. The life expectancy they
say was about 10 weeks. But being I was a
bricklayer, I survived a year and a half in Auschwitz.

SOT STEPHEN
SMITH

26 For every person that’s survived the Nazi regime,
there has to be some element of luck, change,
miracle, fate, whatever one wants to call it. Because
the intent of the regime was to murder everyone
without exception.
SOT BERNIE GREEN

- Bernie showing
tattoo from Auschwitz

27 We came to Auschwitz, we didn’t have names, we
just went by number and this is my number.

SOT ADELE GREEN

- Bernie showing
tattoo from Auschwitz
- Adele standing next
to Bernie and talking
about tattoo

28 When I first saw it, it was a shock because I was not
in a camp and I didn’t know about it, but you get
used to it and it becomes part of you.
VO NARRATOR

- Nazis marching
- Jews being loaded
onto trucks
29 AS BERNIE FOUGHT TO SURVIVE ON HIS

OWN, ADELE AND HER YOUNGEST SISTER,

MIRIAM, WERE HIDING FROM NAZI

SOLDIERS WHO HAD BEEN ORDERED TO
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Green

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LOAD JEWS IN THEIR AREA ONTO TRUCKS

TO BE SENT TO MASS GRAVES.

Interview conducted with Adele Green
SOT ADELE GREEN

- Sequence of Jews
running and being
terrorized
30 People were screaming, yelling, shooting all this. We
heard my sister, it seems they found my other sister
with the baby, with her one-year-old baby and we
heard her screaming, “please save my baby,” but no
one did. We never saw my sister or her children
again.

VO NARRATOR

- Adele looking
through photo album

- Close up of photo
with Miriam and Adele
31 AFTER THAT DAY, ADELE AND HER ONLY

REMAINING SISTER, MIRIAM, DECIDED TO

SEPARATE IN ORDER TO INCREASE THEIR

CHANCES OF SURVIVAL.

Interview conducted with Adele Green
SOT ADELE GREEN

32 We just wanted to live, we just wanted to live
because our parents wouldn’t know what happened to
the family. Somebody had to survive in order to tell
them.
VO NARRATOR

- Shots of Jews fleeing
33 ADELE AND MIRIAM PARTED WAYS IN 1942.

THEY SPENT THE NEXT THREE YEARS

SEPARATED AND LIVING UNDER FALSE

IDENTITIES.

Interview conducted with Adele Green

Michael
Green

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SOT ADELE GREEN

- Continued shots of
people traveling
34 I stayed with a very kind woman. Also religious,
going to church. And I stayed with her a few weeks.
Then I saw she had a permit to cross the boarder to
Romania. When I saw this little paper, I didn’t have
no documents at all, no paper. So I swiped it, I took
it.
SOT ADELE GREEN

- Sequence of Adele
showing fake
identification

35 It was Lydia Gordezka. This was her name, of course
the age was different and everything. You see, this
was good until 1947. By then, I was in the United
States already. It was a temporary passport. This was
really my lifesaver.
SOT WOLF GRUNER

36 If Jews in hiding tried to move from one place to
another, they needed this kind of paperwork to
identify themselves if they would be encountering
control on the streets, a check point or so. So many
tried to get a hold of passports, which would identify
them as non-Jewish Poles. Sometimes they would try
to get in contact with people who would forge these
papers, and others tried to get hold of them by
stealing them and so on.
SOT ADELE GREEN

37 So I did my best, and later it quieted down. And, by
July, who turns up? Miriam.
VO NARRATOR

- Shots of Buchenwald
38
AS ADELE WAS REUNITING WITH MIRIAM,

BERNIE WAS BEING FORCED THROUGH NEW

LABOR CAMPS IN GERMANY.

Interview conducted with Bernie Green

SOT BERNIE GREEN

39 They took me to Buchenwald. And from there they
sent me to Berga. It was like a small camp from
Buchenwald.
Michael
Green

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SOT AVIVA
WEINSTEIN

40 These people lived through horrible conditions,
horrible diseases, horrible weather, the winters were
absolutely horrific. And it really is just miraculous
that anybody survived living in any of these camps.
VO NARRATOR
- Shots of American
liberation
41
SOON AFTER BEING TRANSFERRED TO

BERGA, BERNIE FOUND HIMSELF IN THE

MIDDLE OF THE AMERICAN LIBERATION.

Interview conducted with Bernie Green

SOT BERNARD
GREEN

- Continued shots of
American liberation
42 The Americans were fighting with Germany and I
escaped. I walked and I saw a village and I came in
there to the fence and climbed over. I was lucky that
a ladder was going up to an attic and I climbed up to
the attic and I was there.

VO NARRATOR

- Shots of American
army coming in and
destroying Nazi signs

43 THE AMERICAN ARMY EVENTUALLY

PUSHED BACK THE GERMANS AND FOUND

BERNIE HIDING IN THE ABANDONED ATTIC.

Interview conducted with Bernie Green
SOT BERNIE GREEN

44 I came down and of course I was so happy. I took my
arms around this American soldier and I was so
happy that the Americans are there.
SOT WOLF GRUNER

45 Usually, the Allies tried to relocate the surviving
inmates to certain camps in the occupied areas. So
these camps were called displaced persons camps.
And they were housed there, they were sheltered
there, they were given food, they could even develop
some cultural activities because often they had to stay
for months or even sometimes years.
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Green

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VO NARRATOR

- Shots of Red Cross
trucks coming in
- Shots of Jews leaving
concentration camps
46 IT WAS NOW 1945 AND THE ALLIED FORCES

WERE IN THE PROCESS OF FREEING THE

JEWS. BERNIE HAD MADE HIS WAY TO

ENGLAND, WHILE ADELE AND HER SISTER

WERE ASSISTING AMERICAN GI’S IN

GERMANY. BUT BOTH WERE IN SEARCH OF

A WAY TO THE UNITED STATES.

Interviews conducted with Adele and Bernie Green
SOT BERNIE GREEN

- Shots of Allies during
liberation

47 I gave an ad in the paper. And my aunt found out that
I’m looking for her. And then a cousin of my mother
made an affidavit and brought me over to this
country.
SOT ADELE GREEN

- Shots of Americans
celebrating WWII
victory
48 Our friends, they were writing home and telling the
story about us. How they have two girls who have
parents and brothers in the United States, but don’t
know where they live. What can I tell you? Right
away we received telegrams and letters and wanted to
send us packages. By then we didn’t need food, the
only thing we wanted was please get us out of
Germany.
SOT WOLF GRUNER

49 It was quite common to immigrate to the United
States, but it was very hard because the United States
had, first of all, this quota system, but they also asked
for these so-called affidavits from relatives or friends
who would make sure that no one would later be a
welfare burden. And so people were dependent on
acquaintances or relatives in the United States
already.
VO NARRATOR

- Shots of immigrants
on boat
- Shots of Americans
celebrating in New
50 AFTER RECEIVING THEIR AFFIDAVITS,

ADELE AND BERNIE TRAVELED ACROSS

THE ATLANTIC TO NEW YORK.

Michael
Green

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York

Interviews conducted with Adele and Bernie Green
SOT ADELE GREEN

51 What can I tell you, it’s hard to describe the joy. But I
remember it was on a Friday we arrived and my
parents and brothers and their friends came to greet
us, to take us home, and when I walked into the
house and saw a tablecloth with candlesticks and then
the Shabbos meal, which we didn’t see in six years.
And my parents, especially my mother, she was
so…She could hardly control herself. And in one way
it was wonderful to be with some of the family, but at
the same time, the pain of losing all the others, not
having them here was terrible.
SOT STEPHEN
SMITH

52 The consequences are very, very real, psychological
trauma that goes with that. The sense of dislocation,
the loss of family, the sense of living in a vacuum,
living with guilt, living with uncertainty and fear and
anxiety. And if anyone tells you that that is not the
case with Holocaust survivors, then they really do not
understand what the reality of that experience was.
The suicide rates amongst survivors is
disproportionately high, alcoholism within Holocaust
survivors has been disproportionately high. Why?
Because the mental torture that goes with this is
extremely real.
VO NARRATOR

- Sequence of Bernie
tying tie in the mirror
53 BUT A CHANCE TO EASE THE PAIN OF THE

PAST CAME INTO ADELE’S LIFE SHORTLY

AFTER SHE BEGAN A JOB ASSISTING OTHER

IMMIGRANTS AT THE HEBREW IMMIGRANT

AID SOCIETY.

Interview conducted with Adele Green

Michael
Green

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SOT BERNIE GREEN

54 So somebody told me there are two girls that came
over to this country that were also in Germany and
they survived and they work in the HIAS. And I went
to the HIAS and met Adele. And I took her out for
lunch and four weeks later we were engaged.
SOT ADELE GREEN

- Close up of wedding
photos
- Adele and Bernie
looking at wedding
photos
55 I was always kidding him, he fell in love with my
mother. So, anyway, he, after four weeks or so it was
my birthday, I think, in July. So he gave me a watch
and when I came to the office one of the girls who
was working next to me, I showed her the present, so
she said to me, “I hope you know the meaning of it.
A boy doesn’t give a watch just as a birthday
present.” So I said, I do, I do.
VO NARRATOR

- Adele and Bernie
looking at wedding
album

56 ADELE AND BERNIE WERE MARRIED IN 1948.

THREE YEARS LATER, IN APRIL 1951, THEY

HAD THEIR FIRST BABY.

Interview conducted with Adele Green

SOT ADELE GREEN

57 It was a big joy for everyone. The first baby after the
Holocaust. It was a new life.
VO NARRATOR

- Footage of Adele and
Bernie with their son,
Howard, at his Bar
Mitzvah

58 AND IT WASN’T LONG BEFORE THE FAMILY

ADDED ANOTHER MEMBER.

Interview conducted with Adele Green
SOT ADELE GREEN

- Continued video of
Howard’s Bar Mitzvah

59 I never forget, mother came to the hospital and she
said to me, she kissed me and hugged me, and she
said, “You know, my son was also born the same
time.” My oldest brother. I didn’t even know.
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Green

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SOT BERNARD
GREEN

60 My children were the most important things in my
life because all the family was killed.
SOT BERNIE GREEN

- Home video of Adele
and Bernie with
friends and family

61 We used to do the normal things like other people.
We got friends and we used to socialize and we used
to go out once in a while for dinner. And ma used to
take very good care of me.
SOT ADELE GREEN

62 It’s not the way we planned, it’s not what we hoped
for, but that’s how our life turned out. We tried, we
always tried our best.
SOT AVIVA
WEINSTEIN

63 Just to have gone through it, it’s just a total test of the
human spirit and the soul, and to be able to continue
on after that, to me, just takes so much strength, so
much spirit.
VO NARRATOR

- Adele and Bernie
cutting cake
64 ADELE AND BERNIE CONTINUE TO LIVE

LIFE THE BEST THEY CAN IN THEIR SMALL

APARTMENT IN THE BRONX.

Interviews conducted with Adele and Bernie Green

SOT ADELE GREEN

- Adele and Bernie
having coffee and cake
together

65 I tell you, every day at 2 o’clock we have a coffee
with a very small piece of something. This is our
happy hour, I call it.
VO NARRATOR

- Shots of family
photos around Adele
and Bernie’s apartment
66 ONE OF ADELE AND BERNIE’S GREATEST

SOURCES OF JOY IS FAMILY. EVEN THOUGH

MANY MEMBERS HAVE MOVED FAR AWAY,

THE TWO STILL FIND WAYS TO KEEP THEM
Michael
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CLOSE AT ALL TIMES.

Interviews conducted with Adele and Bernie Green
SOT ADELE GREEN

- Continued shots of
pictures around the
apartment and in the
kitchen
- Adele standing in
kitchen with pictures

67 Pictures do mean a lot to me because, during the
Holocaust we left everything, we didn’t even have a
picture of anyone until we came to this country. I
spend lots of time in this kitchen and I love to look at
them because I miss them. So this is the best I can do,
just have them in front of me, near the sink, near the
stove.
SOT STEPHEN
SMITH

68 Like every story, what it means to have survived is
also very individual. One thing I do get a sense of
though is that Holocaust survivors know that they
represent the family and community that they came
from that did not survive. And that their story and
their life in some way represents everybody that was
lost.
VO NARRATOR

- Shots of Bernie
watching TV
- Exterior shot of
apartment
- Neighborhood shots
69 ADELE AND BERNIE HAVE FOUND IT

INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO GO OUTSIDE

OF THEIR APARTMENT. OVER TIME, BERNIE

HAS DEVELOPED SEVERAL AILMENTS –

MANY OF WHICH CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO

HIS HOLOCAUST EXPERIENCE. BUT BERNIE

STILL LOOKS BACK FONDLY ON THE TIMES

HE AND ADELE WERE ABLE TO GO OUT AND

ENJOY THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE THEY

BEGAN A NEW LIFE MORE THAN 60 YEARS

AGO.
Michael
Green

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Interviews conducted with Adele and Bernie Green
SOT BERNIE GREEN

- Shots of
neighborhood park by
Adele and Bernie’s
apartment
- Shot of benches in
park

70 What I do, when it’s nice, I go out for a walk and
there are benches and trees there. I go little by little, I
walk with a cane to those benches and I rest up, and
then I walk as much as I can again and I sit and rest
and so on until we go home for supper.

VO NARRATOR

- Sequence of Adele
and Bernie in the
kitchen

71 AND WITH EACH STEP THAT ADELE AND

BERNIE TAKE THROUGH LIFE, THEY ARE

GRATEFUL FOR BEING ABLE TO DO SO

WHILE STANDING BY EACHOTHER’S SIDE.

Interviews conducted with Adele and Bernie Green
SOT ADELE GREEN

- Adele, Bernie and
their two kids getting
ready to pose for a
photo
- Still shots of family
photos from Howard’s
Bar Mitzvah

72 I tell you, being together for so many years, you
know about one another so much, you grow together.
And this is what I call love.

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Bibliography

Green, Bernard. Personal Interview. November 2010.

Green, Adele. Personal Interview. November 2010.

Gruner, Wolf. Personal Interview. March 2011.

Smith, Stephen. Personal Interview. March 2011.

Weinstein, Aviva. Personal Interview. March 2011.

Abstract (if available)

Abstract Adele and Bernie Green grew up in the same small town of Zamosc, Poland. But before the two could meet, World War II broke out, tearing both their families apart. After surviving the Holocaust, one of the worst atrocities in global history, Adele and Bernie were offered the opportunity to start a new life with one another upon immigrating to the United States.

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Creator Green, Michael (author)

Core Title Survival

School Annenberg School for Communication

Degree Master of Arts

Degree Program Journalism (Broadcast Journalism)

Publication Date 05/03/2011

Defense Date 05/03/2011

Publisher University of Southern California (original), University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Tag Auschwitz,berga,Germany,History,holocaust,jew,Jewish,majdanek,Nazi,OAI-PMH Harvest,Poland,shoah,Survival,Zamosc

Place Name New York (city or populated place), New York (states), Poland (countries), USA (countries), Zamosc (city or populated place)

Language English

Contributor Electronically uploaded by the author (provenance)

Advisor Birman, Daniel H. (committee chair), Celis, William (committee member), Smith, Stephen (committee member)

Creator Email greenmj@usc.edu,mgreen718@gmail.com

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/usctheses-m3857

Unique identifier UC1461993

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Document Type Thesis

Rights Green, Michael

Type texts

Source University of Southern California (contributing entity), University of Southern California Dissertations and Theses (collection)

Repository Name Libraries, University of Southern California

Repository Location Los Angeles, California

Repository Email cisadmin@lib.usc.edu