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When He Sings
BY MOSHE KATZ
CEO
ISRAELI KRAV INTERNATIONAL
October 21, 2026, Israel
When he sings, he does not stutter, when he sings, they are not dead. When he sings, the pain is lessened, When he sings he is there with them.
Thessaloniki, what a Jewish community it was, but the Nazis cannot tolerate beauty. Of the 45,000 Jews deported to Auschwitz, only 4% survived.
Yehuda sings in Greek....
A boy returns home and knocks on the door, but there is no answer. He knocks harder, and finally the neighbors come out, stop the knocking, no one lives there anymore. They were taken away.
Sweet mother wake up, run to open the door, it is not a stranger at your door, it is your lost son come home. Take him in your arms mother, it is your lost son.
A side door opens, someone calls me, don't knock on this door, no one lives there anymore. Open mother, open.
A man comes home from work, the first thing he does is goes and searches for all his children, each one must be accounted for. It is the memory of Auschwitz, he must know that they are all safe and well. He grabs some bread, stuffs it whole into his throat out of fear that soon there will be no more bread, he begins to choke.
A child brings home a poor grade from school, his mother is disappointed, "For this I survived Auschwitz!"
Helena tells her young child about the "camps", he is terrified. She does not understand. "By the time I was his age I had survived 5 years of Auschwitz, and he is afraid to hear about it! It is not a scary story; it is my story of victory!"
Another mother reprimands her little boy Yaakov for a slight childhood misbehavior. Why? "Perhaps if the mothers of those Nazis had been stricter with their sons, they would not have turned out as evil monsters. My son must not turn out like that."
A young girl walks with her mother, her mother lies, we are going to be resettled, anything but to say the truth, the final destination is Treblinka death camp. A good mother lies to her child, to make death less painful. Everyone must die, but a mother wishes for a sweeter death.
The sadness reminds them of the happiness that once was, the family that is no longer. Do you know, dear son, that I too had brothers and sisters, parents, aunts and uncles? I did. The sad music makes me sad as well, but it brings them back. The sadness and the joy are one.
Thessaloniki, wait for me, I am coming back from the Lager in Poland.
When he sings, the past is alive and hope is the last to die.
Grow up, grow up and become a general.
Mother! where are you going? Eternity is only ashes and dust.
When he sings, the pain and the past, the Hope and the Glory are all one. When he sings the fear is gone. When he sings the stutter is gone. When he sings, the world remembers.
Grow up, Grow up and become a general. You shall lead the living and the dead. Where is the train going mother?
Moshe Katz, 8th dan Black Belt, Israeli Krav Maga. Certified by Wingate Institute. Member Black Belt Hall of fame, USA and Europe.
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