Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Friday, April the 29th, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison.

Gerta Weissman's entire family was murdered in the Holocaust.

She weighed 68 pounds when she was discovered by two

American soldiers a few hours after Germany officially surrendered to Allied forces. After six

years under Nazi terrorism, her feet were so frostbitten, doctors feared they might have to amputate.

She was critically ill and in and out of consciousness for days as she was slowly nursed back to health at a field hospital.

One of the soldiers who found Gerta held the door of his Jeep open for her.

She said later, that was the moment of restoration of

humanity, of humanness, of dignity, of freedom. That soldier, Kurt Klein, and Gerta, fell in love

and eventually married. They moved to the U.S. where they had three children. They were married

for more than 50 years until his death in 2002.

By her death on April 3rd, at 97 years of age, she had eight grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

In 1996, a documentary about her won an Oscar. When she took the stage with the director,

she told a global audience, in my mind's eye, I see those years and days and those who never live

to see the magic of a boring evening at home. In 2011, President Barack Obama awarded

her the highest civilian honor in America, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Yesterday was one of the

most somber days of the year for me, not because of anything happening where I live, because of what happened

7,000 miles to the east, in a country I consider my second home. As the Times of Israel reports,

Israel came to a standstill at 10 a.m. on Thursday as sirens wailed throughout the country in memory of the six million Jews

murdered by the Nazis during World War II. I have led more than 30 study tours to the Holy Land

and have been in Israel on Yamhashoa the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. For two minutes, everything stops. Cars and buses

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