Rachmiel frydlant biography of mahatma
Along with several other young Jewish believers in the Messiah, I went to help defend the city.
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Because I did not want to use a gun, I was given physical work. Within a month the city was crushed and the triumphant Germans marched in. I decided to leave the city and seek farm work with friends to the north. With a certificate in hand, given to me by my pastor, I set out across the burning city. Reaching the outskirts, I was stopped by a soldier.
Without a word, I handed him my certificate. There I was ordered to join fellow Jews who were digging graves for dead horses. It was my first taste of Nazi brutality, but actually mild in comparison with what awaited so many others. That night I escaped in the darkness and resumed my journey. My friends received me gladly and fed me, but in a short time the new restrictive laws against Jews forced me to leave.
Returning to Warsaw, I discovered that one of my sisters had died of typhus and that a wall had been built around the Jewish section. Starting in November , almost , Jews were inhumanely crammed into a small walled area in Warsaw with very little food and sanitation. About 45, Jews died the following year due to overcrowding, hard labor, starvation, and disease.
Charles G. I secretly slipped into the ghetto and was able to speak comfort to a few of the Jewish believers still alive. Other Jewish brethren heard the message and believed in Messiah Jesus. My friends in the ghetto insisted that I leave. They said that if God had preserved me thus far, I would be a witness to the woes they now experienced.
At the end of the war, I could tell the story of their suffering. I was probably one of the last to leave the ghetto. My friends in the ghetto insisted that I leave. They said that if God had preserved me thus far, I would be a witness to the woes they now experienced. At the end of the war, I could tell the story of their suffering.
I was probably one of the last to leave the ghetto. It was only shortly afterward that the Germans obliterated the entire Jewish area. Ludwig Hirszfeld was another Jewish believer, who had come to faith in his twenties. He reflects in his book, "The Story of a Life", that, "There were many people who were baptized in the Quarter - old and young, sometimes whole families.
Some of my students were among them, men and women, and I was often asked to be the godfather. What motives drove them to the baptism? They never received any benefits from it. The change of faith did not entail any change in their legal status. No, they were attracted to it by the appeal of a religion of love. They were attracted by the religion of the nation to which they felt they belonged.
They were attracted to the religion to which there was no room, or least there should not be any room, for hate.
Ogrodowa Street Based on the Life of Rachmiel Frydland - Facebook: RACHMIEL FRYDLAND - () Rachmiel Frydland was raised in an orthodox Jewish home in a village in Poland. At age nine he began the study of the Talmud. Later he enrolled in a Rabbinical Yeshiva in Warsaw with the goal of becoming a Rabbi.
Jews are so weary of the atmosphere of universal antipathy". He also wrote; "Gloria in Excelsis Deo. Glory to God in the highest and peace and goodwill to men. Grzybowski Square and Twarda Street disappear. The excited and feverish crowd of the poor also disappears.
Rachmiel frydlant biography of mahatma
We are immersed in the coldness and atmosphere of the place of worship. Search review text. Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews. I have read many biographies about and autobiographies by Holocaust survivors. All of them are overwhelmingly tragic.
Rachmiel frydlant biography of mahatma gandhi
This one has all the same elements, the terror, pain, separation, loss, betrayal, and death; however, it has one very unique element. It is not hopeless. Fryland begins his account with his own childhood as an observant Orthodox Jew and youth at various yeshivas. Then he explains how he met his Savior Jesus Christ and the changes that brought to his family and life.
Then the War started. He was so alone through most of those years, but he constantly points toward the One who was always with him. I have often wondered if there were any Hebrew Christians in Poland during those days. Now I know that Christ had his witnesses there, right to the final destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, there were saved Jews living, witnessing there.
He also has a stern warning for the church.
But there still remained the Lord, the same yesterday and today. He began to speak to me. Had not Job enough? Had not Paul enou gh? Overcome with tears, I yielded and decided to live as long as the Lord would allow me to live, and to work for Him. Confident that God was with me, I rose up and left those woods. As I moved from place to place, Gentile Christians often risked their lives by hiding and feeding me.
One of my bitterest experiences, however, was the discovery that many German Christians, though they knew of the Nazi atrocities against the Jews, would not help. In that enclosure were 5, Jews, the last of Warsaw's original , By God's enabling, I secretly slipped into the ghetto and was able to speak comfort to a few of the Jewish believers still alive.
Other Jewish brethren heard the message and believed in Messiah Jesus.
My friends in the ghetto insisted that I leave. They said that if God had preserved me thus far, I would be a witness to the woes they now experienced. At the end of the war, I could tell the story of their suffering. I was probably one of the last to leave the ghetto. It was only shortly afterward that the Germans obliterated the entire Jewish area.
Time seemed to drag slowly. There were nights when a Christian family would risk their lives by sheltering a Jew. Once, in the shop of a Christian undertaker, I slept in a coffin.
There were other times when a barn provided my shelter. In all that time there was the assurance that God wanted me to live. As long as He wanted it, I was ready. And finally the day came when I was no longer hunted and condemned for being a Jew. In January of , Russian troops entered Warsaw and the automatic death sentence for Jews was lifted. After the war I left Poland and went to England to study.
With my training behind me, I came to the United States to share in a witness for Messiah among my own people. Then, for four years, I lived in Israel, serving as a Pastor to Israeli believers in Messiah and sharing my witness with my brethren there. In Israel I met my wife, who is also a Jewish believer in the Messiah. She had suffered through the Nazi occupation of France and had survived to immigrate to Israel.
Awed by the power and greatness of the God of Daniel, King Darius wrote a decree to his dominions which perhaps describes best the awe and reverence that I feel for what God has done for me:. He delivers and rescues, He works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth, He who has saved Daniel from the power of the lions. Daniel From my harrowing experience, I see that men who reject Messiah are capable of bringing hell on earth.