Two Holocaust survivors reunited after 75 years: A commitment that changes everything
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 17 October 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR OCTOBER 17, 2019
The Holocaust illustrates the fact that ideas change the world. Today's podcast considers several examples of this principle in the news and invites us to commit our lives to the most powerfully positive idea in human history.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.8 | It's not always easy to find good news in the news. |
| 0:23.6 | Here's a story that encouraged me greatly. |
| 0:26.6 | Two cousins who survived the Holocaust have been reunited 75 years later. |
| 0:31.6 | Morris Sena and Simon Marovitz fled the Nazis during World War II. |
| 0:36.6 | Sena last remembered seeing Marovets in Romania. |
| 0:40.7 | Sena's brothers had already been murdered. He escaped with his sister and mother, |
| 0:45.6 | traveling at night and often sleeping between dead bodies during the day to avoid detection. |
| 0:51.3 | Merovitz escaped with his sister through the help of an English colonel. He grew up in |
| 0:55.9 | England, and Sina eventually emigrated to Israel. A relative working on her family's genealogy |
| 1:02.2 | led to their reconnection. The Holocaust is the starkest reminder I know that ideas change the |
| 1:08.3 | world. In the late 19th century, Darwinian concepts of evolution were |
| 1:13.6 | applied to social problems. The result was the eugenics, or good genetics movement, to improve the |
| 1:20.1 | human population by excluding those deemed inferior and promoting those deemed superior. Following |
| 1:26.8 | World War I, eugenics were combined with the claim to German racial superiority, |
| 1:32.5 | leading to a program to cleanse German society of those identified as threats to the nation's health. |
| 1:39.2 | Among them were European Jews, six million of whom were eventually murdered. |
| 1:47.0 | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker |
| 1:52.0 | tweeted this morning that agreement has been reached between the UK and EU on a new withdrawal deal. |
| 1:59.0 | Brexit is an idea that will have profound effects on Great Britain and Europe. |
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