Journey To South Africa: The Glory Of Jewish Eternity and Survival - The Story Of My Grandparents

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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.

bath for a pain that he's not able to join us tonight and we wish him and his own family anahama the socialization it's really been an honor and a pleasure to spend the week with RAV tabac uh not some something like being in the home of avraham Aveeno where combination and at least I know that I've gained from this trip and this week of I know I have been astrazik and hopefully we'll uh be magazik each other 1946 it was the first Yom Kippur after the war they had just finished kriya Satora in a DP Camp called felderfink which is 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 again and they had just finished reading the terranium Kipper and they had received word that on that day General Eisenhower the supreme commander of the Allied Forces and later the 34th president of the United States was coming to visit this DP camp a few days earlier they were told that Eisenhower was coming and they would have to appoint a representative or two to greet him to speak maybe there would be a few speeches and the representative would have to give over the message someone who could describe their feelings someone who could vent the storm that was swirling inside of their souls and a great dispute arose in the camp the chamele mits US in the camp said there's only one person who could greet the general only the closenberger Reba the grand rabbi the one who although he lost the wife and 11 children he would go from one broken soul to the next breathing life into the Embers reigniting the spark of Judaism which

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1. 0:34bath for a pain that he's not able to join us tonight and we wish him…
2. 4:54a shamish of the closenberger Rebel recently sent me the picture of the closenberger river after…
3. 9:38and to deliver the message in the proper way we really require true Torah greatness to…
4. 13:53I'm not even married yet who's going to say cottage for me and my grandfather remembers…
5. 18:46non-kosher animal you must if you known you're going to hear from us and they storm…
6. 23:01he said I'm not Jewish you're Jewish he was Ashen he was white he said oh…
7. 27:46grandmother escaped with bullets overhead and a very simple thought occurred to me maybe if you've…
8. 32:08maybe he would say it's a nest it's a miracle Shane called that no angel could…
9. 36:58mountains they bombed the railroad tracks and under the direction of General Henning Linden they landed…
10. 41:18sure that was my beloved father a blessed memory a week later I was surprised that…

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