frank grunwald. >>> thank you, john. can you all hear me? i want to thank john fred and the faculty for arranging this chautauqua on seminar. i think it is a great idea. i am honored to be here. as you can probably tell, i have done this before, so i am not too nervous. not too excited. and, basically, what i am going to talk about, is my personal experience, and my family's experience during world war ii. i was only nine, 10, 11, and 12 years old when this was going on. i was just a young kid. much younger than most of you here in the room. i do remember all of the important things that happened. i have forgotten some of the details. and, a couple of things i want to mention to you is that, the photographs that you are going to see here are either readily available over the internet. they are either, there are three types of photographs here. some of them are taken by german military, or the ss. the german ss. and were found shortly after the war. there is another group that was taken by american soldiers, when they walked into some of thes