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. My father realized that this is it, the
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- 0:00My father is the colonel of blessed memory. [music] Germans had put him in a concentration…
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