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Saved by a Single Moment: Why We Must Never Give Up

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Hidabroot - Torah & Judaism

A story of perseverance and the importance of never giving up in difficult times.

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My father is the colonel of blessed memory. [music] Germans had put him in a concentration camp. Towards the end of the war, he managed to escape and he was in the countryside looking for some food. He went to a farmhouse, knocked on the door and the woman there started screaming and the farmer came with a gun and took him to the Germans. There the fellow went to take the gun, told my father to go in front of him and he's going to shoot him.

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  1. 0:00My father is the colonel of blessed memory. [music] Germans had put him in a concentration…
  2. 0:31My father realized that this is it, the end. >> [music] >> So, he did what?…
  3. 1:03difficult circumstances." Turning around, [music] facing face-to-face with the difficulty, that can sometimes save your life.…

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