Ukraine Holocaust Survivor Pays Back Woman Who Saved Her

during the holocaust there was a ukrainian woman she was not jewish her name was maria bilschek she knew a jewish girl by the name of fanya bass i don't know if you know this history hitler invaded russia june 22nd 1941 early morning sunday [Music] and the ayuzad's groupin followed the varmakht and they went from stettle to stettle from city to city from village to village and they gathered every man woman and child who was jewish and shot them this was the holocaust of bullets [Music] during which between 1.6 billion and some say 2.5 million jews were murdered by bullets almost every stettle has mass graves with thousands of jewish bodies right there outside of the city in the ukraine fanya bas was a girl and this maria bilstrick took her in she hit her in her home of course if the nazis caught you you were murdered your whole family was murdered for hiding a jew but she ensured her survival fanya bass has one granddaughter whose name is sharon bass she lives in israel and her grandmother always remained connected to her angel to the woman in ukraine who saved her last week fanya bass's granddaughter sharon found out that maria has two granddaughters who are in ukraine in a war zone and need to be saved so sharon reached out and secured their journey from ukraine to israel here's a picture of these two granddaughters of ukraine and the granddaughter of the woman who was saved by their grandmother greets them in ben gurion airport in tel aviv we never know the plans of history what we do know is one thing when you were born where you are your opportunities your gifts and your challenges your talents resources and difficulties are all with it's all by divine providence and when i wake up in the morning i have that choice a very profound choice either i become a victim of my circumstances i eat up the news i read the news but i'm a passive bystander they say there are three types of people there are people who make things happen people who watch things happen and people who want to know what happened it's a choice we make every day will i be one of those people who says what happened or i will watch things happen but the role of the jewish people from avraham avinu till today is to make things happen you could learn from vladimir lenski in his own way who made things happen and each in our own way to be able to seize the moment carpe diem miui deya malchus to become an ambassador of truth an ambassador of love an ambassador of hope an ambassador of healing an ambassador of authenticity an ambassador of compassion and an ambassador of redemptiveness [Music] the yeshiva.net