Welcome back to the meaningful people podcast. So happy to have you here once again and this week. Oh boy. Oh boy. Do we have a gift for you?

We sat down with Mr. Stroll cats who survived.

We're a lot worse atrocities ever known to humankind.

And Zach, when I were talking before, he's probably one of the most resilient people we've ever met.

This is somebody who went through concentration camps and I'm not going to spoil other things that he's been through

because you'll hear in this episode, but something that stood out to me about him and you'll hear in this episode is how happy he is, how happy he is.

He has a family. He has grandkids, great grandkids, and he's just so happy and he's been through literal, literal hell.

I knocking I discussed before like what we're going to talk about. No, he just said everything. So I have nothing else to add, but just sit back, relax and enjoy this incredible person's story.

Unless you're driving, which like be attentive. Yeah, unless you're in a Tesla.

That's self-driving. If you're in a Tesla, then maybe you wonder if in the Chicago State Fund, that could be nice.

Joy.

Welcome to the meaningful people podcast, the podcast where we talk to people who are meaningful. Yeah, that sounds good.

Okay, we have a very special episode with the one and only Mr. Katz. Thank you for traveling in all the way from

Cedarhurst to Lawrence. Yeah, well, you've got to speak lighter. Oh sure. I'll talk louder this way. I understand what you're asking for.

I said you came. Thank you for coming all the way from Lawrence. Yes, but we are in Laura's right now. Yeah, so

not too far. We're like long business travel. Mr. Katz, can you can you tell us, I guess, where you grew up, where you were born?

Oh, yes, sure. Well, right now, when I was born, the area was in Czechoslovakia. Right today, it's Ukraine.

You know, after the war, the Russian army liberated the area, which was originally Czechoslovakia, that was under Hungarian occupation, and then the Russian army liberated the area.

The place is called in Hungarian was Ongoar. I don't know if you guys heard. It's next to Munkach. Either way, it's a town that I grew up in.

And the home was sweet home like all you guys, we didn't know any problems till the war years.

The war you started in 1938. I was exactly 10 years old. And we went routine. Everything was no problem. We went to school, to cater, to your Shiva.

You did what everybody else did. And the book grew up like friendship wise was the boys from the class were your friends.

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