A Survivor of the Holocaust Tells Her Story.

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Aaron L Raskin’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

I was born in in Lamberg in Poland if you can hold it up now let me let me where do I hold like right in front of your chin will be perfect like this that's good okay um my family come from Poland they were in they lived in Poland it's a stle and in the stle you had one Rabbi one Ro and one one Ro and one and my grandfather was the in theele and uh and you can't hear meit closer I'm not a loudspeaker closer oh gosh you remember those days yeah those days well anyway and uh okay and my grandfather used to Har he used to the way he used used to Har he used to the way he used used to go to shul and on the way to shul he would make sure that people that had no uh that had no husbands that they should be warm in the house he would bring them he would go and bring them wood light the wood and then he then he would go to uh after he finished taking care of few people in the in the shettle he would go then to uh to shul and those days in shul was theer shul was theer and Shu was the place where the Yesa that everybody was learning so he would come there and to find out if the kids H would ask a question and if they knew something from the Torah he would give them a piece of sugar a piece of sugar was a very it's not so wasn't easy to get well anyway but this was the way he used to uh he used to take care of the city um my father father and mother uh

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1. 0:00I was born in in Lamberg in Poland if you can hold it up now let…
2. 4:37don't leave I will kill you and your baby and this baby was of course I…
3. 9:17the street was under Jew it was so much St went into the to to in…
4. 13:58strong a few people with strong Voice open up and my father said what is he…
5. 18:38go on in the black market also and they shouldn't catch them I mean that they…
6. 23:20Siberia we went to Germany but she stayed in Poland in Lodge the city of Lodge…
7. 27:59there and they they oh come in and they were friendly and oh yes and they…
8. 32:40there was still some sense of Faith obviously your your siblings were in benaa you still…
9. 37:23those early experiences have had on you have you held on to things have there been…
10. 42:13already he said he closed his eyes he said is because and he heard screaming and…

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