The Last Man Out Of Auschwitz

A Tora Anytime original series. Then there was Khmelnytsky in 1648, Bohemia 1744, Austria 1843, 1915 the Russian army killed 100,000 Jews. You don't even know about this. In 1917 200,000 Jews were killed by Ukrainian peasants. In 1918-1919 120,000 Jews were killed in close to 500 pogroms in Europe. 500 October 7th. And then obviously came the Holocaust. 6 million Jews. 6 million Jews. That's 4,000 Jews a day. That's 170 Jews an hour killed for 4 years. 170 Jews killed every hour. We should have been crushed. No one should be here. Everyone here, I think, or most of you are Ashkenazi Jews. Came from there. And yet here we are. Because on the day that Auschwitz was liberated all the soldiers, the Russian soldiers, are taking all of the prisoners out to freedom. There's one prisoner, an old Jewish man, he's not moving. He is sitting on his bunk. He's watching everyone else leave. And eventually a Russian soldier who liberated Auschwitz said like well now or never. So this old man, he walks slowly to the gates of Auschwitz and he stops right at the gate. This is the last survivor to leave Auschwitz. And he says Master of the world never in my life did I have as close of a relationship to you as I did in here. Every day I thought about you. Every day I dreamed about you. Every morsel of bread I ate I thought about you. I thanked you. I cried to you. I davened to you. I pleaded for you. He said Master of the world, "Have I not shown my merit?" Look up. Look down from your heavenly throne? We were crushed. We were broken, WE WERE LAUGHED AT. WE WERE BEATEN, we were murdered, we were raped, we were shredded apart. We still thought about you, we still cried for you, we still died for you, we still sang for you. Now it's your turn to choose us. Now it's your turn to choose us. That is our secret. We choose Hashem, he chooses us.