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The Tefillin of Bergen Belsen - An Oorah Story

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soon turns this sister he says I don't want food I don't want medicine there's one thing that I need Sam weisblatt was celebrating Hanukkah in the little way that he knew some blow up toys and a little electric manure in the window suddenly the knock on the door and there's three Ura volunteers and say Sam would you like to learn more about yiddishkai and Sam was very interested and slowly but surely Sam gets himself a Torah mate Sam starts coming every Tuesday night to the tourist spot Mata Shop awesome his children are going to chill Zone his children join the camp in the zone every summer and Sam is joining Ura for their Shabbat for the yamam and growing in his steadily greater and greater and closer and closer to dashem a couple of years later Sam comes down with a terrible terrible illness and one of the Ura volunteers comes to visit him and during the visit he notices it's a pair of old old films sitting on the side he says Sam what are those children all about and Sam says it's treasure is something that is so so dear to my heart museums would pay millions of dollars for it I would never give it away those are my father's villain that he will every single day in bergen-dazs who volunteers says really can you tell me the story and Sam tells him the whole entire story how his father's name was shulim revised growing up in Poland when the Nazis came and took him to bergen-belsen meanwhile his sister was connected with a Polish underground and she was walking around dressed up like a nun and she became friends with a high-ranking Nazi officer and she told the officer I have some dealings with a Jew shulim Vice black could you track him down and the Nazi always says sure no problem and he sets up a meeting between trulum's sister was dressed up like a nun and shulum in bergen-bells and Sean's sister turns to him and says sure is there anything I could bring you we need food do you need medicine whatever you need please tell me and shulum turns this sister he says I don't want food I don't want medicine I want one thing bring me my fill in I need to stay connected Tashan I need to know that Hashem is connected to me please don't bring me anything else bring me my feeling after she smuggled in that's feeling under her nun's clothing every single day at the risk of his life not knowing when the Nazis will come he put on his film with mysterious and any day they could find him and catch him but he made sure to stay connected with his children and Sam turns to the war of volunteer and he says I would never give these children away whoever volunteers listening to the story he says Sam that is such a powerful story you know we have so many people in Europe that need some inspiration they're wondering should I stop putting on film could I stop putting on film could I do my next step in Mitzvah observance is there any way we can get that story into Ura and Sam says yes I want to donate those Philip for aura that does so much for so many Jews Absolutely I'll be very happy for Ura to to display it so those feeling can be kept for another 10 000 years a man I want them to be in the lobby of the Zone camps that people should walk by and look at those villains and hear the story and say if shulum Vice plot could do it in Bergen Belgium I could do it here I could put on filling I could take on my next Mitzvah I want my children to go to help others to bring others closer and closer tashem I keep that connection every single day with Hashem today that period film is proudly displayed in the lobby of the zone where thousands of people here are passing by children in Camp families from the Shabbat tones everybody is coming by and looking at that film and hearing the story of Shula Vice blast villain thank you [Music]