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NEWS
Holocaust Education in Bnei Brak
By A. Cohen
"We stand in awe before the spiritual strength of the
survivors who, despite undergoing the horrors of the
Holocaust personally, went on to build lives full of the
splendor of keeping Torah and mitzvas," said HaRav Menachem
Stein, a ram at Yeshivas Nachalas Dovid in Petach
Tikva during a fascinating lecture during a conference at the
Center for the Elderly on Rechov Achiya Hashiloni in Bnei
Brak.
Hundreds of city residents took part in the conference, which
was designed to provide the younger generation, which has no
inkling of the horrors endured by Jews of great fortitude who
went to the furnaces with the words "Shema Yisroel" on
their lips and their faith intact.
Mayor Rabbi Yissochor Frankentahl shared emotionally charged
stories he heard from his own parents, themselves Holocaust
refugees infused with emunoh, even during and after
the inferno that destroyed most of European Jewry. He noted
avreichim and youths who strove to preserve their
Jewishness and continue leading lives of Torah and mitzvas
despite all the persecution. The purpose of such a
conference, he added, is not to investigate the factors
behind the Holocaust, which lie beyond the realm of human
comprehension, but to teach the younger generation about the
spiritual heroics of our forefathers who upheld
Yiddishkeit under the most trying conditions.
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