Tisha B’av and the Holocaust

[imayid2]

You didn't listen to shiurim in Yiddish? You didn't make it to the ivy leagues?

Yeshivish Yiddish on Gemara is poor help for conversational chassidish Yiddish

[HudZ]

This seems to be the same thing with some introduction and background:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?400657-1/nazi-concentration-prison-camps#

I watched this earlier today...

I have never seen anything like it, (I've only seen pictures in the past).

This will definitely linger with me for a very long while.

[YitzyS]

The Holocaust tribute from the siyum hashas (maybe 2 times ago) opens the floodgates for me without fail. I usually end up watching it most years on Tisha bav before or after saying the kinnos from the Bobover Rebbe and R Schwab.

+100

There is something so stirring about hearing Rav Gifter's raw emotion, and the other gedolim as well. It is also uplifting to hear the perspective of gedolim - so often we see the Holocaust through a secular lens, or through a dark lens of the masses. When the gedolim talk about it, they focus on what is important to remember, and it's not dark, just somber and uplifting.

[HudZ]

The Holocaust tribute from the siyum hashas (maybe 2 times ago) opens the floodgates for me without fail. I usually end up watching it most years on Tisha bav before or after saying the kinnos from the Bobover Rebbe and R Schwab.

https://youtu.be/XLbUdkMnNh4?feature=shared

Just watched it now. I had tears in my eyes.

[S209]

The Holocaust tribute from the siyum hashas (maybe 2 times ago) opens the floodgates for me without fail. I usually end up watching it most years on Tisha bav before or after saying the kinnos from the Bobover Rebbe and R Schwab.

https://youtu.be/XLbUdkMnNh4?feature=shared

This was played at the most recent one. I was there standing right next to the special section for Holocaust survivors as they played that and then as Helfgott said Kel Molei Rachamim. It was incredibly moving watching these real survivors display their raw emotion (there were a few openly weeping) as they relived their experiences.

I often go back and watch this and am always affected anew. R’ Gifter and R’ Schwab are the ones who specifically evoke tears.