Child Begged Mengele To Live - R' Naftali Schiff

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[music] >> This is one of the most remarkable stories that I've ever heard from the Holocaust, but it has ramifications for all of our lives. You know, when we dove in, we say "Hashem, force I tiftach ufi agid give me give me the words to say." So, shmiras halashon is to know what to say and know what not to say. This is a story that I heard from Reb Yaakov Yosef Weiss, who was a survivor of the incredible story on Simchas Torah where boys were taken out of the gas chambers. And one of the most remarkable [music] stories that he told me was of Yom Kippur, Mengele he gathered together a few hundred boys in Auschwitz-Birkenau and [music] he got a soldier to put a bar on a on a like a gold post that was there and he got all the boys to to basically he [music] was he wanted to show that if you're tall enough, then you're strong enough, you could work for the for the Third Reich, you could survive. But if you're a little kid and most of them were were Hungarian [music] kinder boys, then then you're not going to get through. You got to pass my test. But he said there was a little boy whose name was Tuvia Green [music] who was with them and and he was short. He he wasn't tall enough. So, they all tried to sort of lift him up and [music] then they you know they had him stand on

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1. 0:07[music] >> This is one of the most remarkable stories that I've ever heard from the…
2. 0:38in Auschwitz-Birkenau and [music] he got a soldier to put a bar on a on a…
3. 1:08some stones everything, but what what the Mengele did, he had them go around one by…
4. 1:38again. This time when he goes round, he get he jumps up and he hits the…
5. 2:08boy [music] shouting out I want to live. If you can conquer Russia like [music] by…
6. 2:39the power of the words that we say can [music] pierce through the greatest evil in…

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