WWII Survivor Having his Bar Mitzvah At Age 96 - Oct, 27, 2022 | Latest Talks Vlog (Eng. Subtitles)

Now I'm a Jew a holy Jew we just arrived at the terminal (sign reads) ticket boarding our flight was delayed a few hours hopefully, we'll be boarding in the next half hour we just got one new subscriber I understood that 2 hours and 20 minutes let's go fly when you arrive in Florida obviously you arrive at LuxuryKosherVillas.com because they have the best and nicest luxury villas on the market which are Kosher I think I'm worth a billion dollars Good Morning it's a new day after a good night of sleep we're on our way to prepare and set up the event look at this bus, it's very cool by the way I just finished the morning prayers do you want Israeli salad with french fries home fries house salad spicy fries sweet potato fries or rice? can you repeat that? blessed are you, our God, king of the world, who brings forth bread from the earth Litvish (missing spice) hmm... now it's tasty we are here setting up for the Bar Mitzvah here we have Pinchus Raab from Latest Talks over there we have Chilu Posen my father is also here pretending he's helpful welcome welcome so nice to see you today you are a Bar Mitzvah boy [Music] Good Omen And Good Luck [Music] Amon Goeth the head of the Gestapo in Krakow a bandit are we ready for the morning prayers? you will repeat the blessing after me, yes? yeah! repeat Baruch... L'hitateif Batzitzit (Tallit prayer) I haven't forgotten about this ritual I covered my numbers (Auschwitz tattoo) because when we worked with non-Jewish people after the war they knew we were Jewish give a kiss the holy Tefillin L'haniach Tefillin (prayer for Tefillin on the hand) we will do another Bracha, correct? yeah! Baruch... Al Mitzvat Tefillin (prayer for Tefillin on the head) ok, I'm finally a Yid (Jew) not being observant was a lot of pain for my parents Shma Yisroel (prayer) let Mr. Schagrin kiss the Torah give a kiss Yamod (calling up to the Torah reading) R' Arye Leib Lemel Ben (son of) Tzvi Nosain Hatorah (prayer before reading the Torah) Amen (reading the Torah Scroll) (singing) [Good Omen And Good Luck] let Pinchus Raab dance with Mr. Schagrin let's sing once more (Ani Maamin) we brought the younger kids from the local school the kids have brought you a cake with a picture of Tefillin on it and it reads Mazel Tov this is the first school in the state of Florida that teaches the Yiddish language the kids wanna sing for you, Mr. Schagrin [Singing] I can't forget this I was learning the biblical practices on how to put on Tefillin when the bandits (Nazis) arrived Mazel Tov everyone is invited to the meal of our Bar Mitzvah boy a good donut is Strauss simply because it's good and tasty check back on our Chanukah vlog from last year to see how a good, fresh, and tasty donut is manufactured Strauss - The tastiest donuts in town gentlemen, take some fresh hot potato Kugel [Music] we all gathered here today for the Bar Mitzvah of Mr. Schagrin when the hard times of world war 2 started he was 12 years old I was here in Florida during the holiday of Sukkot I went down to his residents and interviewed him where he talks about the full history and troubles of his youth and how it all started he was born in the town of Grybów in Poland and explains the full story whoever wants to know more, can buy his book on Amazon titled "The Horse Adjutant" and he claims that because of this horse that's what saved his life during my visit of the interview I brought along a Lulav and Etrog and he made the proper Bracha (blessing) on the Lulav and Etrog twice during our interview he painfully expressed that he never had a Bar Mitzvah because at the young age of 12 he was already drafted into world war 2 I discussed it with my son Yossi who is also very involved in interviewing holocaust survivors we do it already for the past 25 years we are at a threshold of about 1000 holocaust survivors that we interviewed [Applause] sitting by the table is Pinchus Raab from Latest Talks he uploaded it on his podcast channel where you can still all watch it 9 hours from midday - 12:00 pm till the end of the fast a variety of 30 interviews this year Tisha B'Av (9th of Av) and last year Tisha B'Av now we'll give over the mic to Rabbi Feldbrand God sent him so he can be our inspiration he did the aliya put on Tefillin, said Brachas, put on Tallit it shows us that it's never too late now we'll hear from Mr. Lemel (Leon) we shall all be together we shall have respect for our families we shall avoid going on the wrong paths study know your family's heritage generation after generation protect and defend the culture [Music] Good Omen And Good Luck what are your Auschwitz numbers? 1 6 1, 7 4 4 we're heading to the Cheider (kids school) we are arriving this minute now we are in Cheider Ne'Emas Hatorah [Singing] Shma Yisroel Hashem...Achod [Applause] now we will be giving Pekelach to the kids a grandchild of the Rebbe of Tzanz a Halberstam grandchild? yes! he's a grandchild of the Halberstam's and Rubin's he's the Rabbi's son he will be a strong practicing Jew thank you thank you! bye 👋 please consider subscribing