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The Great Shanghai Escape Part I

The beginning of the Shanghai Escape series, focusing on the Mir Yeshiva's…

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The beginning of the Shanghai Escape series, focusing on the Mir Yeshiva's journey.

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[Music] gam out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who had come to learn cage I say 1 million Jewish children who [Music] were whoever heard such beautiful words it is never too little it is never words it is never too little it is never too late and it is Never Enough Jewish history soundbites bringing alive the world of our glorious past here is our host live from Jerusalem Jewish historian and tour guide Yehuda gab with Jewish history sound bites and before we get to today's episode which is the beginning of a new series I want to mention the situation here in Israel um terrible situation and here in Israel um terrible situation and hopefully we'll get out of it very soon our thoughts and prayers are with everyone uh the wounded the kidnapped unfortunately the um those who lost uh lost me family members and friends and of course all the soldiers out in the field um on the front lines um this is you know very historic what we're going through the scope of this tragedy has not been seen in the Jewish people since not been seen in the Jewish people since the Holocaust and it's still at the beginning we probably haven't been able to process it yet and I even hesitated to record a podcast at this time but I feel that that uh you know this is it's also a good distraction I believe that there's even soldiers on the front line who will listen to this episode um and it should be a good distraction for them as well um and it also this uh series that I'm going to launching now is about

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  1. 1:07[Music] gam out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who had come to learn
  2. 4:44at this time we're going to go from there into um this series and I feel
  3. 8:18Hebrew classic three volume with all its limitations and it has quite a few limitations it's
  4. 11:53my own personal contributions uh in several meetings I've had over the years um one time
  5. 14:57Hashem made a miracle that this whole railroad should be built just to transport the miraa
  6. 18:32and the extreme left of Communism somehow are able to make this non-aggression pack it's known
  7. 22:10and everything so he he had you know he he killed I think over 30,000 officers
  8. 25:15is in the miror they're in eastern Poland and therefore they are never under the Nazi
  9. 28:53republic somewhat Democratic even kind of like a independent country tiny little country uh neutral not
  10. 32:30and aided by local many local Lithuanian collaborators they wipe out most of Lithuanian jury during

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