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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
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