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When Benjamin First Met Moshe

Benjamin describes waking up in St. Ottilien and befriending Moshe.

Aired 11/20/2018 | Rating NR

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When Benjamin First Met Moshe

Clip: Season 2 Episode 2 | 4m 19sVideo has Closed Captions

Benjamin describes waking up in St. Ottilien and befriending Moshe.

When liberation finally came Benjamin was so exhausted and malnourished that he simply collapsed. He describes waking up two months later in St. Ottilien, a monastery in Germany that had been made into a make-shift hospital. There he met another young holocaust survivor, Moshe Opatovski who, like him, had lost everything in the Holocaust.

Aired 11/20/2018 | Rating NR

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