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When visiting Birkenau, everyone takes pictures of the famous gatehouse on the way in. This same view was seen by well over a million of our people on the way to their deaths. I took a number of pictures of this view as well. But when leaving the camp after nearly four heart-wrenching hours, I stopped the small group of students I was walking with and told them, “Let’s take some pictures of the gatehouse on the way out, a perspective most people don’t bother to photograph.” It is this picture that serves for me as the constant reminder of our mission in this world. We who merited exiting the gates of Birkenau must do our utmost to bring others closer to G-d and to be a light unto the nations of the world.
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