Irving Roth (Encore)
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Holocaust survivor Irving Roth, featured in the new film, "Never Forget," has a harrowing story to tell about his childhood shattered by the Nazi takeover of his country and his days in a concentration camp. (Encore Presentation)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome to the Aircomat Taxes Show. |
| 0:12.9 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 0:13.9 | We're living through strange times. |
| 0:15.6 | Albin and I are going to try to process that with you. |
| 0:19.2 | We're going to air this program today and tomorrow. |
| 0:22.2 | So today's Tuesday. |
| 0:23.9 | Tomorrow morning, of course, people are getting prepared for the inauguration of someone |
| 0:31.9 | that millions of Americans don't think actually won the election, which is problematic. |
| 0:36.8 | Is it fair to say that that's problematic? Is it fair to say that that's problematic? |
| 0:39.3 | Is it fair to say that we can say that it's problematic and that it should be |
| 0:45.3 | demonized for suggesting that it's problematic? |
| 0:48.3 | This is where we are in America because my parents have seen communism up front. They raised me. I write about this in my |
| 0:57.1 | upcoming book, Fish Out of Water. That's coming up in two weeks or less. Actually, it's coming out. |
| 1:02.2 | In Fish Out of Water, I search for the meaning of life. I talk about being raised by parents in the |
| 1:08.3 | shadow of World War II. All of their memories of growing up of both my mother |
| 1:12.3 | and father lost their fathers when they were 10 years old. My dad did. My mom did. They grew up |
| 1:19.6 | during the war. They saw communism up close. They saw the evil of communism up close. So they |
| 1:25.5 | raised me differently than most Americans were raised. |
| 1:28.3 | And I noticed this growing up. |
| 1:29.5 | When we moved to Danbury, Connecticut, when I was nine, I noticed that all these American kids that I went to public school with, because before that I was in a parochial school, Greek Orthodox school, or all the Greek kids, there was a similar sense of the evil, whether it was the Ottoman Turks, |
| 1:47.2 | oppressing the Greeks for 400 years, or whether it was the communist, the civil war with the |
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