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Shuvah Yisrael

Yom HaShoah

·1 hr 26 min·5 clips
Andrew interviews Holocaust survivor Rochelle Dreeben about her escape from the Warsaw Ghetto.
The episode is a Yom HaShoah service at Shuvah Yisrael, a Messianic Jewish congregation. Host Larry opens with prayers and announcements about offerings and Holocaust posters. Andrew then introduces the interview with Holocaust survivor Rochelle Dreeben, noting he has been preparing for this for 15 years. The interview is structured around a documentary on the Warsaw Ghetto, with Andrew prompting Rochelle with questions. Rochelle describes her early childhood in Warsaw, her father's hardware store being bombed, and the increasing restrictions on Jews. She details the ghetto's creation, forced labor, and starvation. Rochelle recounts several 'entrapments' where Jews were rounded up for deportation to Treblinka, including a traumatic selection at the Umschlagplatz where her mother was whipped and chose to go with her to the death area. She explains how they escaped through a fence with the help of a Ukrainian guard. Rochelle discusses the 'fairy godmother,' a woman posing as Aryan who saved her by taking her to a convent, where she became Teresa Kurek. She describes life in the convent, indoctrination into Catholicism, and being moved to a barn in Kozlo. After the war, Rochelle went to Vineland, New Jersey, as a chicken farmer before settling in California. She reflects on her memories, the vividness of trauma, and her message to be kind and enjoy life. The service concludes with prayers, the Shema, Mourner's Kaddish, and scriptural readings emphasizing hope and God's faithfulness.

As heard by us

A Holocaust remembrance service shaped by survival, memory, and faith in Yeshua.

Yom HaShoah unfolds as a congregational remembrance service, opening with a call to remember Jewish suffering rather than let it fade into the past.

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You get a Holocaust remembrance service that turns one opening in a fence into a spare, shaken story of survival.

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