My great grand father was a polish military leader. He refused to help the nazis and for it his family paid at great My grandchildren are a window to my past a mirror of today a door to tomorrow shirt. He was a brave and just man, he was not Jewish. My 11 year old grandfather was tormented until his death by the things he endured in the box cars, on the marches and finally in Auswitz II where he served on the burial squads. It was not just the Jews who sufferered.