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The esteemed national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, was talking to a group of students and researchers at the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem, sharing what had happened to him as a five-year-old in Lithuania in the fall of 1945.<\/p>\n

To the students, the incredible story may have sounded like a legend, a parable. After so much time and so many retellings, it may have even seemed that way to Abe too. Was he the only one left to remember what happened that fateful day?<\/p>\n

It happened on Simchat Torah<\/em>\u2014an important Jewish holiday that commemorates God giving the Torah to Moses atop Mount Sinai.<\/p>\n

In synagogues throughout the world, Jews remove the Sifrei Torah,<\/em> the sacred Torah scrolls, from their place in the ark, lift them up high and parade them around, dancing and singing traditional songs until the early hours of the morning. But in 1945, for the few Jewish survivors of war-torn Vilna, it was hard to find any cause for celebration.<\/p>\n

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Abe was born in Poland, shortly after Hitler\u2019s armies began sweeping through Eastern Europe. His family fled to Vilna. If any place would be safe for Jews, they hoped, surely it would be there.<\/p>\n

Vilna was known as the \u201cJerusalem of Lithuania.\u201d Before the war, more than 100,000 Jews lived there, 45 percent of the population. Vilna was home to more than a hundred synagogues, and at the center of Jewish life was the Great Shul, the city\u2019s largest, with a congregation 5,000 strong.<\/p>\n

The building was so magnificent, legend had it that Napoleon himself went speechless when he saw it.<\/p>\n

Then the Nazi occupation began. Anti-Jewish laws set up the tragedy to come: thousands of Jews rounded up and executed in the forest outside the city; those who were spared this summary slaughter were crammed into two ghettos, to await deportation to the concentration camps.<\/p>\n

Abe\u2019s parents made a desperate, agonizing choice, a choice hard for anyone in Abraham Foxman\u2019s audience to imagine. They left Abe in the care of his Catholic nanny, to be raised as her son, protected from being a Jew.<\/p>\n

Miraculously, Abe\u2019s parents survived and were reunited with their child, now a five-year-old. Abe didn\u2019t recognize them and didn\u2019t even know he was Jewish. In fact, he\u2019d been instructed by his nanny to spit at Jews in order to avoid suspicion of being one himself.<\/p>\n

Now Abe felt ashamed and confused about his heritage. Who were the Jewish people, to be so despised by those around them? His father took him to the synagogue, the Great Shul, on Simchat Torah,<\/em> so he would know his own faith, so he would see the magnificence that had humbled even Napoleon.<\/p>\n

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But what they saw was a temple in ruins, the roof collapsed, the walls crumbled, the sanctuary looted. The two-tiered holy ark, ornately carved with gilded plants, animals and Jewish symbols, had been desecrated. Gone were the bronze and silver chandeliers that lit the shul. Most devastating, the sacred Torah scrolls had been stolen.<\/p>\n

Where were the merchants, the scientists, the shopkeepers, the Talmud students, who had once joyously sung and danced beside the Torah? In their place was a ragged group of Jews\u2014over 95 percent of the Jews of Vilna had perished in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

How could they celebrate without the Sifrei Torah<\/em>? What was the holiday without the procession of Torahs\u2014the living word of God\u2014that inspired the Jews to dance and sing? After all that had happened, how could the Jewish people go on?<\/p>\n

Out from the pitiful crowd, a young Russian approached Abe and his father, a soldier. \u201cIs that your son?\u201d the soldier asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, this is my boy,\u201d Abe\u2019s father answered.<\/p>\n

Tears formed in the soldier\u2019s eyes. He had been a rabbi back home, he said, before being conscripted into the Red Army to fight the Germans. After Germany fell, he had made his way west, passing through one decimated village after the other, looking for the vital Jewish communities that had once thrived.<\/p>\n

\u201cI traveled a very long way, and I didn\u2019t come across a single living Jewish child,\u201d he said. \u201cBut now I see your son.\u201d<\/p>\n

The boy, so young\u2014the soldier figured he must have been born just as the Nazis began their murderous march across Europe. Somehow he had survived, and was here to celebrate Simchat Torah<\/em>. At that moment, the soldier knew what to do about the missing Torah scrolls.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we cannot dance with the Torah, then please, may I dance with your son?\u201d the soldier asked.<\/p>\n

The soldier stooped down and hoisted the boy on his shoulders. \u201cThis is the Jewish flag!\u201d the soldier shouted. One by one, people joined in, lifting the few other children high in the air, as if rising from the rubble and reaching up to God. The surviving Jews of Vilna paraded the children around the ruined shul like the Torah scrolls as they sang and danced.<\/p>\n

The soldier and the boy spun around and around again to the happy melodies echoing off the broken walls; the ruins seemed to come back to life. Abe laughed and enjoyed the music, as if something that had been missing from his life came together all at once, a swelling of pride and emotion and gratitude. So this was what it was to be a Jew!<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I came home, I told my mother, \u2018Hey, I like the Jewish church,\u2019\u201d Abe told the crowd at Yad Vashem. For decades, he had been telling this story to remind others of how even in the worst of circumstances, when all seems lost, there is always reason to celebrate your faith, to raise your voice to God.<\/p>\n

The crowd at Yad Vashem was silent when Abe finished speaking. Then one young man asked Abe a question. \u201cWhatever happened to the soldier?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI never saw him again,\u201dAbe answered as he always did, with a bit of melancholy in his voice.<\/p>\n

One researcher who\u2019d heard him wasn\u2019t satisfied with that answer. There had to be someone, somewhere who was also there that day,<\/em> she thought. Who might know who the soldier was, even if the man himself was long dead? Someone who could bear witness to what the young Abraham Foxman had experienced? She was determined to find out.<\/p>\n

In her search, she discovered a song by a Toronto songwriter, \u201cThe Man from Vilna\u201d: \u201cWe danced round and round in circles, as if the world had done no wrong,\u201d the chorus went. \u201cThough we had no Sifrei Torah<\/em> to gather in our arms, in their place we held those children. The Jewish people would live on…\u201d<\/p>\n

Someone was retelling Abe\u2019s story! Then she read a footnote to the lyrics. \u201cInspired by a true-life story, experienced and related by Rabbi Leo Goldman of Detroit, Michigan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Experienced.<\/em> This rabbi wasn\u2019t merely passing a story on in a sermon. He had actually been there!<\/p>\n

The researcher passed the information on to Abe\u2014how the songwriter had heard about Rabbi Goldman\u2019s story. Could the rabbi still be alive?<\/p>\n

Abe managed to track down the rabbi\u2019s daughter, and they arranged to meet.<\/p>\n

Her father was 91 years old, in a wheelchair and had difficulty speaking, the daughter explained. He\u2019d become a rabbi in 1938, before he was conscripted by the Soviets. After the war he immigrated to the United States and served a synagogue in Detroit.<\/p>\n

\u201cHad he told you the story about that day in Vilna?\u201d Abe asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d she said. \u201cOften.\u201d He\u2019d been in Vilna on Simchat Torah<\/em> in 1945.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you have a picture of your father?\u201d Abe asked.<\/p>\n

The woman pulled an old photograph from her purse. Her father in his army uniform. Abe was stunned, then overwhelmed. It was him. The soldier from Vilna. Even though Abe was only a boy at the time, the memory never faded.<\/p>\n

Sixty-five years after their dance in the ruins of the Great Shul of Vilna, Abe and Leo were reunited. They celebrated in a synagogue again, this time with their children and grandchildren around them, the promise of that fall day in 1945 fulfilled, their faith as alive as ever, a reason for joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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