Illuminating the Darkness: A Journey Through Poland's Jewish History

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

[Music] basically what I experienced is What's called the light coming out of the darkness I just want over the next few minutes just to share some of the thoughts and feelings of being in such a place both the darkness and the light we we went on a trip and we went light we we went on a trip and we went to camps we went to Nazi death camps we went to work camps and we went to also places where there was vibrant Jewish life for almost a thousand years in Poland a thousand years of Jewish life and I just want to to go into that world a little bit to kind of see the world a little bit to kind of see the scope that I think it's very important to appreciate that where God forbid people could get to without guidance and the Darkness that can occur without guidance and uh especially just taking note that the Nazis were was so refined and there was so so methodical and the trains always ran on time and there was something that's just especially concerning that in such a May Advanced civilization advanced culture could come the most uh barbaric acts and that was very striking just to and I've been thinking about this you know for my whole life that point but when you get there and you see things when you get there and you see things you see you see original structures Things become different they touch you in a different way what's interesting some of what really was really just uh that affected me a lot is just the amount of deception and coordination that the na is used when we were in ludge and in the ludge

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1. 0:00[Music] basically what I experienced is What's called the light coming out of the darkness I…
2. 2:36ludge and in the ludge ghetto so and every single ghetto and every single place had…
3. 5:13was is that the Nazis they had all the documents your kid is eight he was…
4. 7:46heaven I was very very uh um also chilled that I was learning a lot about…
5. 10:23like doesn't spook you out like right here like literally my donic is mish my donic…
6. 12:59it so I kept thinking the entire ire time that I'm in Poland when a Jew…
7. 15:35killed I want to tell you there is a yid who survived dwoods and he told…
8. 18:13Lublin and they were liquidating so three bam were sent to this particular bunk shared by…
9. 20:48know and I remember thinking you know there Wasim there wasik ises there Wasim in M…
10. 23:26with all the distractions and getting lost in this world so they might have a beating…

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