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BRS Poland Trip 2017 - Mass grave of children

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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it's hard to follow that uh powerful incredibly powerful letter which was sewn into her undershirt and said she'll tell you the rest of what happens but we have an assignment we have homework for you here before we can get back on the bus and make our way to kracko and I want to just give you an introduction to the assignment and leave enough time for you to do it we come here in the forest we hear that 8,000 are buried in Mass Graves here 800 children in the spot in which we stand and relative to other places we've been and will be tomorrow 8,000 it's almost impossible to say this is a negligible number Treblinka 900,000 aitz million the number 8,000 seems small relative to some of the other places so was commenting to me as we walked in the attack on the World Trade Center killed 300 th000 people devastating horrific unimaginable in america1 million Memorial was built the world has turned upside down New York City all focuses on it and it's a third of the tragedy of this one spot hidden in the forest and this one location that we're in to give it a sense of perspective being here is personal for me we walk through tarau Michael Michelle and the privilege of hearing his father's story his childhood there who thank God was able to get out Michael and Liz commented that perhaps were standing at the mass grave of children who his father played with in his youth who didn't have that fortune but my father's father had family in tar now as well my great-grandfather and my great uncles and to this day we don't know what happened to them Father said said that his father mentioned the cousin had

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