ChinuchAtHome

Originally made for internal use, the film is now available for all to see. In August 2006 a group of sixty Aish HaTorah rabbis from around the world visited the death camps in Poland with their Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Noah Weinberg.

This is the story of their journey and its relevance to Rabbi Weinberg's fifty year battle against assimilation.

Background to the Film

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 Berkowits 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.