THE FIRST SUKKOS AFTER THE WAR - A Documentary

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] foreign [Music] 1946 the very first Yom Kippur after the war they had just finished kriya Satora in a displaced person Camp called felderfink which was a gathering of many of the broken shells those who had survived the terrible catastrophe and were groping to put the shattered pieces of their lives back together they just finished Chris hattora and on that day General Eisenhower the supreme commander of the Allied Forces and later the 34th president of the United States came to visit a few days earlier they had been told that General Eisenhower was going to visit their DP camp and when the general would come there would have to be a representative of the camp someone to greet him to give a speech maybe there would be a few speeches and the representative would have to give over their message someone who could describe their feelings to vent the storm inside their souls and a dispute a rose who should be appointed for the task the show Mary Tyler in the camp the observant in the camp they maintained that only the closenberger Reba only the great rebber someone although he himself had lost his wife and 11 children he was the one who went from one broken ashama to the next breathing life into the Embers to reignite the spark of yahados they said who could better represent us than the closenberger river who can better give over our feelings only the rebel the father of all the orphans in the camp only he can represent us but the more Progressive ones the more

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1. 0:00[Music] foreign [Music] 1946 the very first Yom Kippur after the war they had just finished…
2. 0:30survived the terrible catastrophe and were groping to put the shattered pieces of their lives back…
3. 1:32great rebber someone although he himself had lost his wife and 11 children he was the…
4. 2:04enlightened ones the ones who had forsaken Torah Mitzvahs they said no not the rebel we've…
5. 3:08and they set up a big platform a stage and they sat him up at the…
6. 4:11we must never forget that we are the am Hashem we must never forget we have…
7. 4:43brokenges and the people began to cry there were many said they hadn't cried the entire…
8. 5:45four days left till circus please General can you bring us our bamina can you bring…
9. 6:15upon Liberation our revered grandfather of blessed memory Gladstone who was a survivor of all the…
10. 7:19Eisenhower and when Eisenhower shipped in those dollar minim to the DP camp those dollar minimum…

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