Our Grandfather the Hero During Holocaust In Middle East

0:36Some of the Jews were sent to camps, and some were in the camps in Tripoli itself. For example, there was the Giado concentration camp. The Giado concentration camp was located 235 km south of Tripoli. There they sent the absolute majority of communities, Crónica, Benghazi communities, the Derna community. In January 1943, days before the siege of the camp by the British, all the camp guards were called to the general area in front of the train cars. The feeling among the people in the camp was that at any moment they would receive a phone call that would warn the city. When this call came, the command was not heard.

2:01And they received a message quickly, quickly, quickly. The children of the United States are approaching. Get out of the place. When the British arrived at the camps and saw the situation of the Jews, they tried to come and do and help as much as possible. Some of them also later At the end of June 1942, the Louisville Declaration of Independence, which equates the legal status of men in Louisville to those in Italy, means that all men from the age of 18 to the age of 45 will be granted civil service. The men from Tripolitania were sent to work in Sidi Hadas and Kufra in August 1942. 3,000 Jews were sent to the Sidi Hadas labor camp near Homs. And from there, they came and carried out missions all the time, targeting more Jews and more Jews. In one of these camps, Father Gabriel Ben Kamula worked. The prisoners in the camp started their day at six in the morning and ended at five in the evening. They received half a kilogram of bread, rice, or a bowl of pasta. That was their food.

3:30There were a few explosions. We won't get into all the details, but they came and killed there as well. From time to time, they would come with explosives. There were also explosives in the camps, and there were also explosives from outside. My grandfather told me how they would come with explosives, and people would die, like ziv-ziv. Ziv-ziv in Arabic is like dust. Like diseases. The sanity was terrible there. The lust was terrible. The man had to come and work in the same conditions. In a lustful level of self-deception. In anger, in lack, in concern for the peace of his beloved. In a controlled environment. Many times, he found himself next to dead animals and parts of animals, seeing a reflection of their lives, yet there was no one to talk to. Mori Saba, peace be upon him, was in terrible poverty at that time—truly terrible poverty. And he himself would go and bury the dead. The same dead, that when he would get home, his whole house would be full of blood from those dead that he had buried.

4:52One of the rich men came to Rabbi Nahum Nisim, a wise and highly respected figure from the great community of Tripoli. He was known for his wisdom and wealth. Rabbi Nahum Nisim was approached by this wealthy individual, referred to as "grandfather," who expressed a desire to purchase from him a specific mitzvah. of the burial of the Jews. He said to him, just say how much you want. How much money do you want for this mitzvah that you did? In times when there is not a gram of bread left to eat, and there are children at home to feed, and sometimes a woman in the yard, such a proposal is not ridiculous. It is a proposal of life and death. If you have money, if you have gold, you can come and gamble in the black market. You can come and make a living a little bit more than the minimum, which is still not normal, but at least your children won't be jealous of the bread. And the teacher of my grandfather said to him, Rabbi Nissim Nachum, your grandfather was not on the mission. He was not on the mission. He was the king of his people, the Jew who works, who keeps the Torah and the commandments as much as he knows.

6:09He said to him, "Look what a Jewish grave is and listen. I will sell the mitzvah that I buried with my Jewish brothers. How can you think of such a thing? Do you understand?" The terrible hunger and the lack that we can't come to understand. Today, there is a bit of a corona outside. People don't have the bagels they love or the snacks they usually eat. The shortage was such that there was nothing. Whoever had just one egg was considered a millionaire. Not like today, when there's a shortage of eggs and everyone is wondering, "What to do? What to do? There are no eggs." If there are no eggs, you eat something else. Lack of food was profound. Today, there are snacks, there are food products, there is cornflakes. Who thinks about these things? They reached a terrible level of hunger and a terrible level of desperation. There were conditions under which this commandment could destroy the whole family. The Chazon Ish said, in no way should you sell this commandment that I buried the lives of Jews for. And it was every day — bodies, upon bodies, upon bodies. Consider the transitional conditions. Handling bodies can lead to diseases.

7:22It can bring calamities. It's also a challenge for the enemy, who doesn't care at all about the lives of Jewish people, and is looking for a whole nation to come and take care of the Jews, to kill, and to destroy. All these things did not prevent the existence of a truth. This is called Jewish slavery. Indeed, when we examine the teachings of Reb Chaim of Brisk, it's evident that his methodology uniquely emphasized the depth of lomdus in the study of Gemara. Each sugya, or Talmudic topic, demanded rigorous analysis, especially in understanding the shakla v’tarya, the give and take, of the Gemara.

8:37the Gemara in Sanhedrin discusses the concept of 'ger she'nisgayer k'katan she'nolad dami'—a convert is like a newborn child. There are profound implications to this transformation, both in halacha and in the personal identity of the ger. Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l, has an important teshuva on this very topic, where he navigates the complexities of familial relationships post-conversion. My apologies, but you haven't provided any specific text to correct. Could you please provide the text that needs editing?