8: [Moshe Blechman] God Gave Me Credit
What Came Next
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🗓️ 7 April 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Moshe Blechman is a former soldier, professor, and Rabbi hailing from Poland, whose life changed forever when his hometown was demolished amidst Hitler’s World War 2 efforts. As a result, he was left family-less, homeless, and even country-less by nine-years-old. However, he was given a new chance at life when he became one of the Holocaust’s infamous ‘Tehran Children.’ What came next in Moshe’s life is both heartwarming and heartbreaking, and it’s a great honor to help him share his story.
Synagogue: a Jewish place of worship
Shul: the hebrew word for temple, or a Jewish house of worship.
Mitzvot: a good deed or occurrence likely born from religious duty.
Eema: the hebrew word for mother
Yeshiva: an Orthodox Jewish elementary or secondary school
Yelladim Tehran: ‘Tehran children’
Ein: the hebrew word for none or nothing
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Sources:
BBC Stats on Polish Deaths in the Holocaust
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49523932
Henrietta Szolds & The Tehran Children via Hadassah
https://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2020/01/07/henrietta-szolds-children/
The Holocaust Encyclopedia on The Tehran Children
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/tehran-children
A Shocking Lack of Holocaust Awareness
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/survey-finds-shocking-lack-holocaust-knowledge-among-millennials-gen-z-n1240031
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| 0:39.3 | moshet blechmann is a former soldier professor and rabbi hailing from poland his life |
| 0:49.4 | changed forever when his hometown was demolished amidst Hitler's World War II efforts. As a result, he was left |
| 0:56.3 | familyless, homeless, and even countryless by nine years old. However, he was given a new chance at |
| 1:03.8 | life when he became one of the Holocaust infamous Tehran children. What came next in Moshe's life is both heartbreaking and heartwarming, |
| 1:13.6 | and it's a great honor to help him share his story. That is not only because of his immense |
| 1:19.0 | strength, but also because he's been a fixture throughout my entire life, and even led my mother's |
| 1:24.5 | funeral services in 2007. Please note, Moshe does say a few words in Hebrew and or Yiddish, |
| 1:32.3 | and the definitions for those words can be found in the episode notes. |
| 1:36.3 | The My name is Moshe Blachman. |
| 2:04.6 | I was born in Poland in the city called Zamo. |
| 2:10.6 | I had four sisters. |
| 2:13.6 | All of them were older than I was. |
| 2:16.6 | They were so happy to have a boy. |
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