A deeply personal mission filmed in Lithuania, exploring the eternal promise of Jewish continuity.
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[Music] Since homeish, there was not such a home ever in clo. >> Imagine in the ghetto the starvation. >> This was a place where life was basically unbearable. We're in the forest of Ponar. >> How can nature cover such a gross? >> We were sent to the ghettos. My mother with three children went to this very spot was the public execution of the gi. >> Here we are at the table of the gi. There are Jewish children still. This was something that caught me by surprise. [Applause] [Music] had the privilege of doing a trip together with Rabbi Schlommo Bachner, the head of Bon Olam. We went to Lithuania. I had the privilege of spending a couple of days with him while we visited these historical sites which have so much meaning not only in Jewish history but specifically to the story of how Bonam is doing so much for Kali Israel right now is a tremendous experience both for me personally and I think ultimately how we're going to share this story for everyone else. The trip consisted of three people. It was just myself, Rabbi Bachner, and Yehuda, plus a few of the film crew. But we felt that we were representing not just 14,000 children and babies that were born through Benam. We're also representing the thousands of couples, tens of thousands of single boys and single girls that are waiting for their Yeshua. Every tear that we shed, we had them in mind. And with that, we felt like we weren't on our own. We spent in VNA approximately a day and a half. I'd say around 36 hours. VNA has a very very bloody history. When we talk
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