YOM KIPPUR IN AUSCHWITZ
In this poignant podcast, Rabbi Dunner shares the moving story of Nobel-laureate Elie Wiesel‘s Yom Kippur in Auschwitz, in 1944. Wiesel recalls the debate among inmates whether or not to fast on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, even as they suffered in the hellish circumstances of the Nazi-machine’s most notorious concentration camp.
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