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Did you ever see the movie The Blobs starring Steve McQueen?

The blood-curdling threat of the blob.

Well, way back when Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his scene because the blob was supposed to

eat him, but he kept spitting him out. Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. Anyway, here's the guy

who's not always that easy to digest. Eric the Texas! Folks, welcome back. I have the privilege

of continuing my conversation with Jack Boreffle.

The book is My Two Lives about his experience as a boy growing up as a Jew during the Holocaust in Germany.

Jack, you just shared with us something so difficult, so painful, hearing of the death of your mother who was at Auschwitz,

and this would have been Christmas 1944. You said it was Christmas Day that you heard this

terrible news. Yeah, I'm not sure if it was 44. It may have been 43. Yeah. That we heard about

my mother. Yeah.

It's just extraordinary young boys hearing of the death of their mother in Auschwitz.

Your father, when did he, was he killed?

He was not killed.

He was transferred shortly before the end of the war to another concentration camp called Mudhausen, which was right down at the Austrian border, near Lens. And he was freed by the American army. But at that point, he had lost so much weight, and he was so sick,

both of his lungs were gone. So he lived about another two months at the most. It was by a family who they assigned my father to be very careful, to feed him.

Not to feed him too much, you have to be very careful when you haven't eaten for a long time.

And try to bring him back.

Back after the war, I went back there and I met those people and I also met the two doctors

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