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Discusses the leadership and rescue efforts of Rav Eliezer Silver during World War I and II.
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[Music] both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the garage prolific team members slain in west [Music] germany germany out of the 24 who were killed were americans who had come to learn in covenant i say one million jewish children who were made to become losers [Music] that's atomic perfect it is never too little and positive feedback from part one so i decided to follow it up with a part two on him as an amazing person in the amount that he accomplished so i'm going to continue and perhaps delve in a bit more in depth into some of the aspects of his life that were just done briefly in part one but before that there's some letters that i received and i'm not gonna read all of them obviously but some of the more interesting ones a a very knowledgeable and dedicated listener um submitted the story that he himself heard story that he himself heard from rabbithriam greenblatt the author of the rivervice ephraim a prominent rabbi in pisac in memphis tennessee for many years and he related how as a young man he was on his way to his first rabbinical position taking a train across the united states from wherever he was i guess from new york and he decided to take a detour and go to cincinnati and and or detour was on the way i don't know i didn't get all the exact details but he
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- 37:50over a year after the war these people had these survivors had been liberated you saw…
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