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Yom Hashoah Interview with Holocaust Survivor Dr. Moshe Katz Moderated by Rabbi Yaniv Meirov
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Good evening all and thank you for
tuning in.
As we begin the recovery process from
this pandemic, many in-person events are
still canceled, and so we decided to
bring this event to you to commemorate
Yom HaShoah by hearing from a man who
went through it all.
Dr. Moshe Kats is the author of Nine out
of 10.
And he has kept the promise that he made
to his family, friends, and fellow
survivors that he would tell
the story. And he has been keeping that
promise and telling his story for 70
years.
Dr. Kats has been promoting tolerance
and teaching about the Holocaust in
different venues across the country to
Jews and non-Jews alike.
His family utilized deep-rooted
political connections to save not only
their family, but many of their friends,
neighbors, and anyone they could.
Following the Holocaust, he resettled in
the United States and has been part of
building communities such as the Five
Towns.
He has also started TAG, Torah Academy
for Girls, as well as the Agudah of Long
Island, institutions which are thriving
today.
At a time when our future as a society
is uncertain,
we need to overcome hate,
be unified, and never forget.
Hate is once again rearing its ugly head
across our society. Now more than ever
we need to be unified and come together.
As anyone who went through the Holocaust
can tell you,
hate results in destruction,
devastation, and loss of life. With
unity, we can come together.
Thank you to Chazak, Torah Anytime, and
QJL for coordinating this event. I would
now like to introduce my dear friend, a
man responsible for inspiring thousands
of people, Rabbi Yaniv Meirov, who will
be interviewing Dr. Kats tonight.
Thank you all.
Shalom Aleichem and welcome everyone to
a special special interview. We have the
honor, we have the privilege to be here
at Dr. Moshe Kats's home. Welcome.
Shalom Aleichem and shkoyach for
agreeing to be uh interviewed. How are
you doing, Dr. Kats? How are you
feeling?
Baruch Hashem, I feel okay. I'm
welcoming you. I'm glad you came in
time. And I'm all ready for you.
Okay, yeshurun koach, Dr. Kats. Thank
you very much for your time.
We're going to be discussing your book,
uh and then we're going to be discussing
the Shoah, so let's jump straight into
it. In your book Nine out of 10, you
took readers through a history of the
Hungarian Jews' will to survive and
overcome adversity during the war.
Take us back, with your permission, to
the time when you were younger and Nazi
terror was not a factor. Tell us about
your family and your yeshiva upbringing,
please.
It's a long story, but I'd like to make
it as short as possible.
Well, let's start
when I was very young in cheder,
like uh all children went to cheder.
And at age
of uh
13,
you had to go to a mesivta, a yeshiva,
out of town.
And uh
I ended up
in Romania called Vad Iva Shoah,
Vishay
and my rosh yeshiva was a Mordechai Leib
Cohn.
And it was not a like a regular yeshiva,
it was more like
an intern- international
gathering of boys from all over the
countries, different countries.
And we passed there
uh once a month or six months.
And then we graduated and went to a
higher yeshiva
to Košice, Czechoslovakia.
And there
we had
a very good
rabbi.
In other words, to describe you the
difference between
a rabbi in America and a rabbi in
Europe,
there was never a compliment.
All they knew is abuse you.
I'm sorry to tell you that, but that's
true story.
Like one rabbi would tell me
that you have no brains.
Because if I ask you something, if you
want the truth is,
it's
permitted.
And if you want to say permitted, think
the opposite what you think, say that.
And then you'll be okay.
So it's only one abuse
to carry with me.
And in Košice, the opposite third thing,
the opposite happened.
Uh I met a rabbi by the call Avigdor
Gershon Kestenbaum.
And
like all the rabbis there, they were in
poor
financial condition.
And he invited me to his class
on Friday morning
and introduced me to 30 boys.
And I told you, "This is a good boy.
Comes from a good family from Ungvar,
and I urge you to be friendly with him."
And now we are two mesechtas in front of
us.
Mesechtas
Kiddushin,
mesechtas Avodah Zarah.
By Monday, he expected
us to know the first page
of these two Gemaras.
I had no idea
what they talking about.
So I was broken up
and Shabbos afternoon,
first Friday night, I went to the close
and I found a young man
and says, "Could you help me?" "Sure,
what's the problem?" Told me, "Let's
take care of one mesechta first."
"Okay."
So Kiddushin,
Nedarim, Gittin, Bava Metzia, Shulchan
Aruch, Bava Metzia, and the whole story.
And
he taught me for about 3 hours, I knew
it by heart.
Come back in the afternoon, Shabbos. I
came back.
He took care of Avodah Zarah.
Who's a little little man
and reading Gemara, my timer.
So the whole story. Anyhow,
I went all right.
Monday morning, who knows?
I know, Rabbi.
Told you he's a good boy.
But my background was I knew nothing.
I came there
uh with very little knowledge
background.
And this is how two rabbis differ from
one another. This one encouraged me, and
because of him, I studied day and night
not to disappoint him.
I didn't do it for my mother or my
father,
or not even for the rosh yeshiva, only
for the rabbi.
I didn't want to let him down, and since
then I had a wonderful
uh
time. I wasn't afraid to learn. I went
to a big
No, to a big to a higher yeshiva
called Rachov, which was the end of
Czechoslovakia.
And now in 1938 came the war.
And
every little guy wanted to make a
country for himself.
So it was a guy by name of Voloshin
who made it a country, divided
the part of Czechoslovakia, the Russian
part, for himself.
And said, "All the people who weren't
born
in this neighborhood should go home."
So we went home.
And I was 14 years old.
And
now,
not long after that, the Hungarian army
took over
the Czechoslovakia
uh country,
and we were all confused what to do.
At that time I had payos,
like everybody else.
And
one afternoon,
I was walking
maybe a block away from my house,
and four pilots accosted me and jumped
on me,
stepped on me, and pulled off one of my
payos.
And this was
my hello
to the Hungarian army.
I
It was the Hungarian Air Force, not the
army.
So
I went home,
and I went to the barber,
and I tell the barber to cut off my
second payos to make it even.
So the barber was a religious man, and
he said, "I don't do it unless your
father comes here and tell me to do it."
In turn, I wasn't so dumb.
I went to a goyisha barber shop, cut off
the payos. No more payos. I don't need
to be beaten up because of the payos.
And this is how it started.
Now,
I will skip a few years.
The Jews had a very hard time.
They took away all the husbands
to
labor camps.
And
the woman stayed
home like widows.
Hardship paying rents.
And if not for the American joint,
people would have starved.
Help came from America.
And
little by little everybody suffered.
We were seven boys home and three girls.
And somehow my father had
some connection by the police and were
able to stay home all of us.
But we didn't show too much.
Every one of us went in different school
not to
not to say that the catches are exempt.
And this is what happened.
Now
I'm going to just tell you a story
and then we finish this action.
Uh
in 1942
Hitler was demanding by the Hungarian
government to deliver the Jews.
Horthy, who was the leader of Hungary at
that time,
he wasn't a friend of the Jews,
but he needed the Jews for the business
and the factory.
Because most of the big factories, even
the munition factories,
was
owned by a Weiss family, which were
Jewish.
And if he takes away all these people,
what's going to be with all these
the economy will collapse.
So, he didn't want to let the Jews go.
Finally, Hitler tells him, "Okay,
you want to keep your citizens, keep
them, but I want the Polish Jews."
So, they collected
22,000
Polish Jews in November 1942.
My father was also born in Poland, so
the police chief told him to hide.
And so, that's how he stayed home.
And
these Jews were taken
to Ukraine in a town called
Kamianets-Podilskyi.
If you look up Kamianets-Podilskyi, you
could see the atrocities and what they
did to the Jews.
My brother Pinkhas, who was a
Belzer Hasid,
uh mar-
married in a little town of Chavas in
Marmaros.
Where the Visnitz Rebbe of the first
Rebbe
And his father-in-law was taken away
with these people.
And he came to my father and says,
"Daddy, you have so much connections all
over.
Try to bring back my father-in-law."
How could that be? Nobody ever heard of
that.
But he didn't let go and suddenly my
father thinks there is
uh family Kömngéder
where in the 1930s
the father went bankrupt.
And my father was the only person who
could give him credit again and helped
him to come back to business.
And before he died, he told his
children,
"If Katz, the brush maker,
needs any help,
regardless if it takes your life, you
got to do it."
And he was he was an officer of the
Hungarian army. My father persuaded him
to go there to Kamianets-Podilskyi and
bring him home.
So, he went there
and Mr. Stern,
Shmuel Stern, who was the father-in-law
of my brother,
"Okay, I'm going with you, but cut off
the beard."
"I want to go with my beard to my maker.
I want to go there the way I look."
He wouldn't listen.
He came back, so we tried again,
persuaded him to go to put some bandages
and blood with a red cross.
He got himself a red cross truck,
went there,
covered the beard, and they brought him
home.
Now, I got to tell you a short story and
then we finish this segment.
It was a Shacharis minyan today.
So, it was very hard for me to walk.
I fell three times
before I got to shul.
A malach came from the back, a doctor
picked me up, and I was able to go, and
I had a Shacharis minyan.
Why do I tell you that?
He was in our house hiding.
And two weeks later was a Shacharis
minyan.
So, he says in Jewish,
"Ich soll gehen zu Shacharis gehen in
shul rein. Der Shacharis minyan."
"Oh, no, I must go to Shacharis minyan."
We tried to persuade him, "Some people
will see you
and it wouldn't be good."
"Ich muss gehen in shul rein."
He went to shul. The shul was
in the same
uh yard as as our apartment.
So,
I learn remembered his thing. He was
taking a chance of life and life to go
to shul to Shacharis minyan. "I'm in a
free country.
Why shouldn't I go?" And this is why I
cons-
I went.
And finally,
he didn't want to stay in our house
because we wouldn't let him go to shul.
He was 70 years old. He didn't know the
laws and what's going on.
He went home to his hometown.
Before you know,
the
uh state troopers came. They were very,
very harsh to Jews. They had the
feathers
hat.
And they said, "How did you get back?"
So, he says,
"Chaim Katz brought me back."
Without any problems.
And that was started our problem.
And
the FBI came to our house
to investigate, investigated a long
time.
And once he came
to my father and he shook him up, he
says,
"Okay, you give me all your money, I'll
let you go."
So, that's what we were waiting for, and
we had a friend in the FBI
who arranged the house
to be wired.
And my father sent
a person
to Bochum, where the Belzer Rebbe was
in the ghetto.
And the shaliach come back
on Thursday night.
And the Rebbe said, "Yeshua's Hashem
yachid avain."
My father made a seder.
He said, "Don't worry, everything will
be okay." Friday morning,
they were waiting 9:00 the guy should
come and pick up the money.
He got a call from headquarters, he
committed suicide.
And that's And this
that
it's not that I heard it, I lived it.
And with this I close this segment.
Wow, Dr. Katz, very inspiring.
So, is there one story that you would
say that you remember vividly or that
you could share with us from the times
of the Shoah that could give us chizuk,
give us some inspiration, some some
emunah and bitachon?
Since my father came from Poland and my
mother from Hungary, we always had
refugees in the house because somehow
their passport or their
uh
stay in the city was expired.
And we
we always knew what's going on in this
world.
So, I mean the minute we grew up, we
knew what's going on because those
refugees were talking all the time.
And we hardly believed them, but it was
true.
So,
I was involved not only in kiyum,
but how to save
uh people. But the first thing is I went
to take care of
my relatives.
And it so happened that there was a
Fritz Fatic family who had two orphan
girls
in Budapest in Hungary.
At that time I was there already.
It was a whole thing how I got there,
but we leave that for later if we have
the time.
And
I went to their apartment. They were
crying like fever.
That the superintendent told them that
by tomorrow 12:00 they got to leave
because the houses has to be Jew free.
They were Jewish houses
pushed them into the houses there and
they were Jew free. There were signs
and apartment house I'm talking with 20,
40, 50, 100 tenants. Jew free house,
Jewish house.
So, what do I do with two children, 11
and 13?
Two girls.
Finally, I found
uh
Catholic orphan home
which they agreed if I supply them every
week with a certain amount of food, they
will take in the kids.
Because there's no food.
And then I worked as a guy in a
supermarket.
But not a supermarket like you see, a
supermarket through a little
supermarket.
Like twice as big as this room.
And
I was able to get all all the food that
I wanted.
So, in a basket
I took the food there
and meanwhile those two girls had
crosses on their neck already
and they told them
they're
praying.
I called them aside in the backyard and
I told them, "Remember you're Jewish.
And if I don't stay alive, you remember
to do something to go to Jewish people
who will s-
remain alive."
She says, "Okay." They said, "Shema
Yisrael."
And then the nurses come already, the
nuns. Too much too much too much.
Uh after a few weeks
um this I had my brother with me
who were wearing a policeman's uniform.
That's who he was.
And he was always
a few
houses away from me to see what's going
on.
One day I come out from the
nursing home from the
Catholic home
and I s-
two detectives motioned me come over
come over come over.
And my brother is watching me and he
says, "Okay, come to the precinct
because you are engaged in black
marketing."
He saw me carrying food in
and food was only available
on
uh
coupons.
Every week every family get a coupon and
that's how we went shopping.
So, he had the courage and said,
"This guy I am looking for two weeks
already and you're going to spoil my
investigation."
They were happy let me go take them.
And that's how I got out.
So,
here I stop again for your next
question.
Amazing, Dr. Katz. Unbelievable.
Uh we're going to jump to a different
topic of anti-Semitism.
Unfortunately anti-Semitism is still a
threat. What can we do as individuals to
fight this evil? Is there any lessons
from the back then that we could use for
today?
You see, anti-Semitism
is a not a new thing.
Since the world was created, there was
anti-Semitism
in different ways.
But
killing
like Hitler did
was never ever happened. They changed
those from one country people into the
other country.
There was
killings
but not the
killing of 6 million people.
So,
I am a member
of
uh Mrs. Lichtenstein's
organization.
Project Witness. Project Witness.
And I talk in their behalf.
And since this
uh virus came in
the whole thing stopped.
But just before this
we decided
that Holocaust is no more an item. It's
an old thing. People will forget.
It's too old. You're going to schools
today, ask any child, they don't know
nothing about it. In fact, there's a lot
of guys don't know nothing about it.
I tried them out in Lakewood.
Out of 20, nobody knew. I don't talk
details. Nothing.
Nothing.
So,
we decided to do something about
anti-Semitism.
So,
the first thing is we went to Crown
Heights
to
a
colored
school
where there was a lot of
uh
colored people
a lot of Yemenite people
and a lot of different people about 500
people in the auditorium.
And I presented the way
this way.
You don't have to say hate us
and we don't have to hate you.
We have a common enemy.
And those are
the
How do you call them? Higher.
Those who are against
everybody who is Jewish
and uh Anti-Semites.
No. You're talking about the
the skinheads? What?
The skinheads? The skinheads and
somebody else.
Anyhow, they are
both our
enemies. They hate the black people.
They hate anybody who is not pure white.
And we have to get together and fight
them together.
And this is how we have to do it because
they want to destroy you, they they want
to destroy us. So, we have to get
together and stop them.
Okay?
And this was my team.
I brought them examples how they burn up
black black churches in the South. I
showed them dates
when those people went to trial and they
got 20 years. I showed them another
another guy who killed 10 people and I
showed them where and I told them the
dates.
And I convinced them
that there is an enemy who are both of
ours enemy.
So,
they
congratulated me
and they loved me
and they got together.
Uh You have the picture on the machine?
You have the color, yeah. Yeah, prepare
that picture. I know.
Show me how to do it. And
we had a very very successful Mrs.
Lichtenstein was there.
She said she never heard such a
presentation.
And now we were starting to get busy
with anti-Semitism, not the thing
because that's more important than this
because this is today. That was then.
Not that I don't care. Sure I care.
There is not a day that I don't think of
it. In my dreams I I scream and
everything else. I live with it.
Uh this is my life.
I dedicated the last 30 years of doing
that. I was teaching a class in Yeshiva
Far Rockaway for almost 30 years and in
tag
or other schools whenever they let me in
I spoke
Catholic schools uh
uh whatever you want, public schools.
Whenever I had a chance, I never said
no.
So,
thank God this was a success.
And we planned other successes
and we had congressman with us and
important people
that they should see and we also had a
Jew with a beard with us. They should
all
that how a Jew looks
like me, could be like them.
And it was something out of this world.
We had a a very good successful.
The principal was wearing
those Arabian uniform. Came in wearing
and hugged me.
And he says, "I never thought of that
how they have to teach them."
He called the supremacists.
And and
uh
they gave us they gave me a basket of
full of fruits.
Because by the time I told them about
kosher and not kosher.
And we planned
another one. We had and that's all.
And uh
Harlem 125th Street, there's a special
school for uh
very intelligent boys and girls, mostly
black.
And we had
on the
internet
the Zoom.
Supposed to be 45 minutes, it lasted 2
hours plus. Wow.
The teachers and the principal,
they all sent me letters of
congratulation
for what well it went.
They they wanted to know
how the Holocaust was and why it was.
I says, why it was, I cannot answer you.
But how everything went, that I I could
tell you.
So, this was
in the 125th Street school was a very
big success. Then they came the
infection of the 19 and then everything
stopped.
They call me for a few times for the
Zoom. I don't go for it. It's not It's
not uh
It's not my thing.
Could you ask me something else, please?
Yeah, of course.
Amazing, Dr. Katz. At the organization
that we have Chazak, we always strive to
show chesed, kindness to everyone, every
Jew that we meet. And we try to give
them chizuk, give them inspiration on
their own level. During the Shoah,
during the Holocaust, being there for a
Jew was certainly a big factor. Being
there for other people to help them. Any
story brings light to this concept? Do
you have any story?
Well, to this concept it's like this.
We learned
that
if you
leave the Jewish faith
eventually they catch you again.
It doesn't help.
The best example is
in
when Dreyfus was convicted for espionage
the real anti-Semitism started
all over the world. Kill the Jews, kill
the Jews, kill the Jews. Look at that.
Uh he was an officer of French army and
he becomes a spy against them.
So, to make it short
Emile Zola wasn't a lawyer. It bothered
him because he saw it's not true.
There was a railroad thing that got him
in.
And with other lawyers, with other
people, they worked and
they reserved they reversed
the thing and they let him go.
But they just didn't want to let him go
like they made a mistake.
So, they wrote a law
that he should free him.
Nothing apologizing, nothing.
And newspapers articles was this little
when he was freed.
And this anti-Semitism
boiled over all over Middle Europe.
And they maskilim
started to live very good.
In Hungary alone, there was 100,000
uh
uh this was taking the Catholic
religion. Not so much because to be
religious, just in case some trouble
comes, they will be saved.
But when the deportation came, they all
went on the train. Regardless
how religious you are or not religious
you are, they ended up in Auschwitz.
And
from that you see
that only trouble is
it's like here the Jewish people don't
have enough hero organizations
and the other side has enough very
strong.
I'll show an example.
They had the maskilim had a little short
show
on a stage and they put there 40 people
in one side and there was a judge a
military officer, a doctor
to see who's going to the army.
So, one guy comes
Oh, I just got married.
No, don't have to go to the army. The
other one says, build a winery.
You don't have to go to the army. The
other one said, I just built a house.
Mhm, I'm afraid. No.
And
before you know, these two people in
wheelchairs, we want to go.
So, this is the Jewish people with the
army. You see, things like this to make
choshek
is they had a song.
In mikveh it's again can achnis
verstein. A mincha gesinte mit dem
winter soll doch machen arisch.
You understand?
No. You don't know Yiddish? A bissel
shtikel a bit. Oh, it says like this.
But it rhymes.
Uh we cannot understand that a healthy
man
should go to the mikveh
in the winter.
They make choshek, you understand? So,
they had an organization
not equal. They snatched they snatched
religious boys and girls away and you
see, in Europe it was at 14 you finish
school.
Want to go to work, you could go with
work. So, they went to work and by 16
they had enough money not to listen to
their parents.
And they went on their own and
they didn't go like here with drugs,
there was no drugs.
It went
uh
on Shabbos swimming.
On Shabbos playing soccer.
This is how
this whole thing started and it was
easier to be not religious
but the cheres from parents
like we had
none in the place here you cannot figure
out.
They didn't call Dad, Dad, come here or
there.
If you please
everything was if you please. He didn't
say I want.
You we could say I desire.
But we never said the story I want.
To show you one example how the cheres
was.
There was a family
whose son was young, 18, 19. But they
were very good soccer catcher.
And they came to him, Mr. Rosenbloom
your son is mechallel Shabbos.
My son is not mechallel Shabbos.
We go to the clothes, we daven 12:00, we
finish eating our lunch 1:00, I learn
with him until 3:00 and then he goes to
sleep and I go to sleep.
But he didn't know he goes to the window
and a car is waiting for him and take
him to Shabbos was the training.
So, and each time
they pulled the father and
and your shame, your son, your son, your
son. And the son rather didn't play
then then hurt the father.
Until he moved out of town
and he did whatever he wants. But
respect for parents
was unbelievable. In even the
non-religious
pa- parents were respected all the time.
99% of all families.
Dear Rabbi, that's amazing.
Since you wrote your book, have any
other episodes come to light or stories
or or or tidbits or information that you
would like to document for the world and
cement into history?
Well,
I
I'm in touch with a goyem
who helped me for the first
uh 3 months of my escape.
I was at their farm
and I worked with goyem, nobody knew
that I'm Jewish.
Only the supervisor of the farm.
And I'm in touch with them, the third
generation even today.
Uh a few years ago when
this Pittsburgh killing was was all the
newspapers in Europe.
So, I got a letter from them.
Uncle Peter, that was my name there,
Peter. Uncle Peter
we just painted a room
with a new mattress.
We could You could come to us because we
hear that they're killing the Jews in
America.
You understand?
Yeah.
And
this is us, you know.
And I went there
I went there a few times.
And the last time I was there was around
maybe 10 12 years ago.
And
it came Friday.
The bishop of the town comes to see me.
He says, "Mr. Katz, I want to apologize.
I always told
bad things about Jews in my church.
And I always because they saw that my
people are dressed
better than any other
my girls' clothing and I always send
them
and
a suit for him and they were different.
They were the only one of them that had
a bathroom
like I mean a regular bathroom in the
house.
All everybody's outside.
You ever hold so an outside house? Okay.
This is what's going on 10 years ago.
So, he wants to apologize. I should come
to church in front of everybody
that he's sorry
because I'm going to go to my maker.
He's 85 years old
and he wants to apologize. I told him,
"I'm sorry. I don't go into a church."
And beside this, I have to leave. I'm
going to Israel.
So, he says to me, "Okay, here an answer
to any on Sunday."
And they sent me in the newspapers. He
really sent it on Sunday
that he's sorry what he did because he
always told the people the American Jew
will not come back.
He'll forget about you.
And now the third generation,
I'm still sending Christmas money.
And they send me and
you know,
New Year's cards
and
with all kind of sickness.
Uh
with
the crosses and everything else.
And this is how how they are very very
plain people.
Very honest people.
And I never gave them any money when I
was there.
So, this is what
what brings me down again.
Anti-Semitism
is growing.
It's growing. They hate us. Uh
you know what?
Go ask 20 people why they hate the Jew.
He don't know.
So,
you're not going to end anti-Semitism.
You only could do one thing.
Kiddush.
And thank God I did one kiddush.
But I did it right.
I
met the young man was working for the
building department
and
somehow we became friends.
And little by little,
he put the kid in the school here.
And for 20 years he was eating in my
house with the whole family. Wow. Three
children
and then five every
They went to Israel.
And 10 years ago I went to visit them.
And they got the whole family there.
And they had 50 grandchildren and
children Wow. in the sukkah.
And tells me, "Moshe, this is all
yours."
And not even one which is not shomer
Shabbos.
One of the daughters married a guy with
a shtreimel.
And he has yeshivas.
And he has
soldiers, farmers, he has everything you
could think, but it's all shomer
Shabbos. And baruch Hashem for that
alone, I said, "Hashem,
I thank you for allowing me to do this.
And I did it. Wasn't easy, but I did it
and I'm very proud
of the outcome."
And the same thing with why I did
yeshivas here.
Everybody asked me.
In October 1944,
a new government came into Hungary.
Worse than
than the Germans.
Very bad.
Uh there was no more transportation.
So, they collected Jews 40,000
by foot marching them toward Germany.
And the children, they said, "Leave it
in the high school. We'll take care of
them
in the public schools and when you come
back, we'll give them back to you."
So, suddenly
they made
uh agreement.
No food. No work, no food.
Children don't work.
They got to get them together and throw
them into the Danube River.
And I was
I lived on the 10th floor in a beautiful
apartment house.
And at night we look out through the
window.
10:00 there was a clock.
There was a curfew. Nobody could walk
10:00 no more.
She truck loads of children coming.
Throw them to the
to the ocean.
And this was for eight days.
About 2,000
a day.
And those who tried to swim,
they killed. And the
older children, they would cuff two
three together. They said, "Swim to
swim."
If you ever go to Budapest, you could
see all their shoes yet
on the
thing. And this a Jewish boy like me had
to look at it.
And I say, "Ribbono shel Olam, if I stay
alive,
I will do yeshivas."
And that's why I dedicated myself.
I built Shaar Yoshuv yeshiva here. I
built Tag here.
Rabbi Pfeiffer's yeshiva was born in
this house.
Darchei Torah was born in this house.
And
I didn't do Darchei Torah. All the only
thing was at that time,
my first $500
was the first deposit they made.
And yeshiva Darchei Torah was constantly
here eating Shabbos in the beginning
when they had
five or six boys.
And
they weren't easy boys. Shaar Yoshuv.
But they Shaar Yoshuv, not Darchei.
What? Shaar Yoshuv yeshiva. Shaar Yoshuv
yeshiva.
Not Darchei. Not Darchei, no.
Who Lena? Oh, that not Darchei.
Good to give correct with me.
You can always listen to a wife. Yes.
So,
Shaar Yoshuv, yeah, Rabbi Katz.
This is this is the thing.
I could go on and on and on and on, but
I know the time is short. Everybody's in
a hurry.
And uh
the span of listening
is no longer than 15 minutes.
I go to schools. I know.
Even yeshiva boys.
When I taught the girls,
I saw that after 15 20 minutes,
so I gave them
10 minutes of how to go out on the edge.
Oh, wow.
They loved that.
You understand? But they made good work,
you know.
They made made very good work.
So, how did you change that to Shaar
Yoshuv cuz it wasn't Darchei? It's fine.
Today you could see in Shaar Yoshuv
150 boys. Yeah, that's beautiful
building.
Just connect her up. Is there one final
message, Dr. Katz, that you could give
it to our audience one last Okay.
My final message is this.
My Jewish brethren, my Jewish brothers
and sisters, wake up. Wake up.
Wake up.
You think you're secured? Nothing is
secure.
If you could get one family
to be shomer Shabbos,
just one family,
that you could earn the world. Why?
Figure out.
There is
shomer Shabbos people almost a million.
If everybody would take in one family,
overnight will be 2 million.
Then they think somebody else.
You could make up the 6 million lost
Jews
with this.
There's no other way.
You don't have to be
a builder who's a shatner who's a
a Jew.
So, if you could do that, that would
make me happy. And that's only way
I'm so without me doing one, I wouldn't
be happy with my life. I did one, I'm
very happy. And this would make you
happy.
Just invite him for a dinner. Who can up
somehow? And then give it over to an
organization. It doesn't matter how you
start. As long as you start. And with
this, I love every Jew
regardless of their religion or
affiliation. Every Jew is important to
me. So, I love you all
and have a good good of all
and a wonderful life. Thank you. Amen.
Amen.
Wow, that was really inspiring last
message. And to give you his Dr. Katz, I
didn't tell you this in the beginning,
but the organization we're involved with
Hazak can I know her
up to date 997
kids we transferred from public schools
to Yeshivas in about 4 years can I know
her. Baruch Hashem has the Hashem. Just
to give you a little bit of a his but
it's just the beginning of the Avida.
Everyone that's watching knows about the
great work that the organization does.
But Dr. Katz, I got to tell you what a
his you just gave me. If everybody just
saves one more in a shama, we double
what we have right now, a million to
two. From you then and the Hashem will
bring the shlema with the Messiah to the
kingdom
and may know amen. Shkoyach. Shkoyach.