So I'm Ginon Leif, almost 89 years old.

And I've lived in Israel approximately 65 years.

I'm a Holocaust survivor, an ex-Kibbutznik, a Democrat, liberal, all the good things.

Maybe some not so good.

Hey listeners, it's Mishi.

So, as you know, during these incredibly difficult days, we're trying to bring you voices

we're hearing among and around

us. These aren't stories, they're just quick conversations, or postcards really, that try to

capture slivers of life right now. There's a lot of Holocaust rhetoric in the air. Bibi Netanyahu has said on several occasions that Hamas militants are worse than the Nazis.

And this week, the Israeli delegation to the UN wore yellow stars at the Security Council.

All of its controversial, of course, and many people, including many Holocaust survivors, have different

feelings on the matter. Gidon Leve from Ramat Gan probably isn't exactly what you imagine

when you think of a Holocaust survivor. For many years, he lived in Kibud Zikim on the Gaza border,

where he milked some 200 cows a day. Nowadays, get this,

he's a veritable TikTok celebrity, with nearly half a million followers, and, quite accurately,

likes to refer to himself as a rascal. When the war broke out, he experienced a lot of trauma

and took shelter in Ngedi on the shores of the Dead Sea.

Our producers Mitch Ginsberg and Adina Karpoch went to visit him.

So in 1938, about three months after the Germans had entered Kaluivari, my parents and grandparents

decided they can't anymore. Impossible to be here. So they decided they are going to move

to Prague. Let the Germans have this. We were going to the east to Prague. And I remember my birthday

was in March. I was born March 3rd. And I'd received a beautiful tricycle, red tricycle,

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