The footage for
this feature length production (63 minutes running time) was primarily
taken on location in Poland as the camera crew accompanied the Rabbis
through the blood soaked sites of Warsaw, Auschwitz, Treblinka and
Mejdanik. This was an historic trip for Aish HaTorah as the Rosh
Yeshiva, Rabbi Weinberg, has spoken for many years about the link
between the devastation that pounded European Jewry during the Second
World War, and his unrelenting fight to educate and inspire the masses
of post War Jews who are ignorant of the richness of their own Jewish
heritage.
The trip was especially poignant as there were
many children of survivors amongst the group who had not previously
visited the camps. Many of the participants of the group number amongst
Aish HaTorah's first graduating semicha classes and now hold rabbinic
and Jewish leadership positions in cities across the English speaking
world. Whilst many have seen their own interest in Judaism reignited
and subsequently enriched under the tutelage of Rabbi Weinberg, they
interface daily with families ravaged by assimilation.
Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits Shlita, Rosh Kollel
of the Jerusalem Kollel introduces the film talking about a deep
understanding of Hashgacha and the current historic predicament of the
Jewish people
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