Holocaust survivor escaped death in Pittsburgh
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🗓️ 30 October 2018
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the Daily Article for Tuesday, October 30th, 2018. |
| 0:07.7 | Judas Somet was rescued from Germany's Bergen-Belsen concentration camp 70 years ago. He survived Saturday's |
| 0:14.0 | attack on his synagogue in Pittsburgh because he was running late. Born in Hungary, Somet was |
| 0:19.2 | six years old when his family of six was put on a train to |
| 0:22.2 | Auschwitz. The route was blocked, so their train was eventually redirected to Bergen-Belsen, |
| 0:27.0 | and estimated 50,000 people died in this camp, including Anne Frank. Samet's family was eventually put |
| 0:33.3 | aboard a train and tended for another concentration camp, but they were liberated by American |
| 0:37.8 | troops before reaching their destination. Samet eventually made his way to Pittsburgh, where he owns a |
| 0:43.1 | jewelry shop. Last Saturday, he was talking to his housekeeper and was four minutes late to Shabbat |
| 0:48.4 | services. He entered the parking lot and was pulling into a handicapped spot when gunfire erupted. |
| 0:54.0 | He was in the line of fire, |
| 0:55.4 | but wasn't hit. David and Cecil Rosenthal were not as fortunate. The brothers had fragile |
| 1:01.9 | like syndrome, a genetic disorder that often results in mild to moderate intellectual challenges. |
| 1:07.2 | The two were developmentally disabled and lived together. Cecil loved to greet people at the door of the |
| 1:12.3 | synagogue before services. A friend called his laugh infectious. He added that, quote, |
| 1:17.4 | David was so kind and had such a gentle spirit, end quote. They were two of the 11 killed at their |
| 1:22.8 | synagogue last Saturday. Their funerals are today. The Pittsburgh shooting is unfortunately not the only |
| 1:29.2 | tragedy in today's news. A student was shot dead yesterday at Butler High School in Matthews, North Carolina. |
| 1:35.4 | Indonesian officials are searching for clues after a jetliner crashed into the Java Sea yesterday, |
| 1:40.8 | likely killing all 189 passengers and crew. Seven people were shot and wounded |
| 1:45.8 | early yesterday morning during a Halloween party at a Southern California nightclub. But I want to |
| 1:51.3 | focus this morning on the synagogue shooting for three important reasons. One, we must fight the |
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