The Story of Yisroel Katz - Holocaust and Cancer Survivor | Meaningful People #62
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welcome back to the meaningful people podcast so happy to have you here once again and this week oh boy oh boy do we have a gift for you we sat down with mr stroll katz who survived one of the worst atrocities ever known to humankind and as yaakov and i were talking before he's probably one of the most resilient people we've ever met uh this is somebody who went through concentration camps and i'm not going to spoil other things that he's been through because you'll hear in this episode but something that stood out to me about him and you'll hear in this episode is how happy he is how happy he is he has a family he has grandkids great grandkids and he's just so happy and he went through literal literal hell i nothing i discussed before like what we're gonna talk about now he just said everything so i have nothing else to add but just sit back relax and enjoy this incredible person's story unless you're driving which like be a tentative yeah yeah unless you're in a tesla that's self-driving if you're in a tesla then maybe you want it from the chicago fund nice enjoy welcome to the meaningful people podcast the podcast where we talk to people who are meaningful yeah that sounds good okay we have a very uh special episode with the one and only mr katz thank you for traveling in all the way from cedarhurst or lawrence yeah well you better speak writer oh sure i'll talk louder this way i understand what you're
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