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Since in many yeshivos TB is during bh”z the minhag has developed for the Churban Europa to be talked about on Asar B’Teves.
This being said, does anyone have any interesting/ inspiring/ miraculous/ not well known stories from the war?My father’s z’l first wife and his 2 children were sent in Auschwitz to the left but my mother a’h being a sister of his wife, 32 years old single and strong was sent to the right to be put to work. She twice followed them to the left and a German soldier pushed her back to the right.
My father z’l got inflicted with typhus in the labor camp Mauthausen requiring him to relearn how to walk and got healed from it.
“My father’s z’l first wife and his 2 children were sent in Auschwitz to the left but my mother a’h being a sister of his wife,“
Your father married your mother’s sister before her and had kids from your aunt?
I’m confused
CA: RE’s father married Sister 1 and had children. The Nazis ym’s murdered Sister 1 and her children Al Kiddish Hashem. RE’s father then married Sister 2 (sister of Sister 1) and had our beloved RE.
Oh right
I was getting confused with brothers marrying the same woman
ujm, thanks for straighten him out.
i just had the most amazing women come speak at my school. she is a holocaust survivor and went through it all. she has the most positive outlook on life, it makes me feel so ungratefull. these people are kiddoshim. we could be the last genaration to meet them. time is passing quick. take advantage
Even though I thank Hashem that I was born afterwards, I experienced some of it. I heard stories constantly of my parents experiences seeing my father z’l crying when he talked about his wife and two daughters killed in Aucshwitz. I visited my father’s labor camp at Mauthausen, Austria when being around 10 years old, and seeing the lookout towers, prisons and crematorium ovens. I heard my mother a’h tell stories of her working for I.G. Farben filling grenades.
When I was born in the beginning of 5748 (1948), my father z’l was taken into custody. He reported someone making anti-Semitic speeches. Originally he was called in as witness and found an excuse for not appearing. However then he had no excuse and two policemen came to get him.
For Hungarians, there is a book called The Politics of GENOCIDE, The Holocaust in Hungary by Randolph L. Braham, 1998, which describes the deportation.
Wife grandmother nursed a person suffering from typhus from the brink of death in right after liberation, years later we found out that he was my mechitens father.
Here’s a story about the Holocaust that has not been well publicized. […] because the cowards running YWN are afraid…
If you are talking to me, it isn’t fear, it is the halachik issue of inviting l”h
“ujm, thanks for straighten him out.”
If anyone ever needs to straighten someone out, that’s what I’m here for. Just give me a holler. 😂
How can YWN consider itself a responsible news organization and selectively censor posts
edited – this isn’t the news page
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