An evening with Eva Schloss — Transcript

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1. 0:00this is Karla Hinton I'm here with Rabbi
2. 0:03Ovadia Goldman spiritual leader of the
3. 0:05Habad Community Center for Jewish life
4. 0:08and learning we're going to talk about
5. 0:10the coming visit of Evis loss she is a
6. 0:13Holocaust survivor and the stepsister of
7. 0:15Anne Frank she will be at a special
8. 0:18presentation on Thursday November 21st
9. 0:21at Oklahoma City Community College thank
10. 0:24you for coming in rabbi thank you so
11. 0:25much for having me here today you have
12. 0:27been talking about this for months and I
13. 0:29know that a lot of people in the
14. 0:30community are anticipating Eva's visit
15. 0:33as as we all as we all are they should
16. 0:35be with this has been for years in the
17. 0:38making
18. 0:38we've tried for four years to put
19. 0:40Oklahoma City on her tour list so yeah
20. 0:44we're very excited about that okay okay
21. 0:46you kind of helped a segue into my first
22. 0:49question why did you think that you want
23. 0:52it to bring ever sloth's to Oklahoma
24. 0:54City so as we know there's quite a bit
25. 1:00of turmoil in the world today also we
26. 1:02know that the pool of holocaust
27. 1:06survivors is diminishing everyday and
28. 1:10especially those who can speak and speak
29. 1:14well and have a message and a good
30. 1:16message and we felt that especially for
31. 1:20people that are a little bit younger
32. 1:21this would probably be or might be from
33. 1:24their only opportunity that they're ever
34. 1:26gonna have to be able to hear directly
35. 1:28from a Holocaust survivor now I know
36. 1:33that ever has been around the world
37. 1:35sharing her particular message do you
38. 1:40think that her message is going to
39. 1:41resonate with Oklahomans so one of the
40. 1:44reasons I personally and the
41. 1:45organization talk about community sent
42. 1:47was excited about bringing her is
43. 1:49because she doesn't just tell the story
44. 1:52of the dark moments in her history the
45. 1:56challenge and the hardship and the evil
46. 1:58and the dark the darkness that she had
47. 2:00to face looking like when she passed by
48. 2:03dr. mengele and all
49. 2:05at Auschwitz in the face but she has an
50. 2:08amazing amazing powerful message in her
51. 2:10life story of how she not only survived
52. 2:14the Holocaust but with a lot of optimism
53. 2:17and courage and faith and hope in the
54. 2:20future she built an amazing life and she
55. 2:24has an amazingly encouraging message in
56. 2:27this way so especially that Oklahomans
57. 2:30like we are today I felt this was
58. 2:34important there on a more statewide
59. 2:38level this state goes through sometimes
60. 2:40with weather
61. 2:41we had the Oklahoma City bombing people
62. 2:46that had to survive some horrible
63. 2:48moments but even individuals here in the
64. 2:51community that I meet as a rabbi with
65. 2:53over the last 20 years we go through our
66. 2:56own small more micro issues in life and
67. 3:00at the time that we're going through
68. 3:02those challenges they feel very dark
69. 3:03they can feel very overwhelming and I
70. 3:06think that she's gonna have an amazing
71. 3:07message both to those who had already
72. 3:09gone through such things and to our
73. 3:11youth who in their life will be facing
74. 3:13moments like that I had the great
75. 3:18opportunity to do a phone interview with
76. 3:21her maybe a month ago and I was struck
77. 3:23by her optimism but I was struck by her
78. 3:26her optimism do you think that is
79. 3:28something that the world needs now it
80. 3:32always needs it todays days you know
81. 3:35just reading the news watching the news
82. 3:37every day don't know we can use it even
83. 3:39more I mean for to have somebody who in
84. 3:41her lifetime she was a witness to
85. 3:44darkness evil she knows what that
86. 3:47darkness and evil and that hate could
87. 3:49lead to what hate leads to and she
88. 3:52carries a message that resonates and
89. 3:55very close to my heart the leader of
90. 3:58world Jewry the lubavitcher rebbe of
91. 4:00blessed memory he would often repeat the
92. 4:02old age Jewish adage that a little bit
93. 4:05of light dispels a lot of darkness and
94. 4:07to her it is about spreading peace and
95. 4:10love and light and coming from somebody
96. 4:12who looked darkness in the face like
97. 4:14that it's powerful
98. 4:16okay great great great okay so I
99. 4:18anticipate there will be people who will
100. 4:20hear us talking and they will want to
101. 4:23come to that presentation so surely the
102. 4:31the presentation is an Oklahoma
103. 4:33Community College right now there's just
104. 4:35a few tickets left I believe in the
105. 4:38regular sales there are some an also
106. 4:41limited amount of sponsorship VIP
107. 4:43tickets with a VIP event at which
108. 4:46they'll be able to meet ever personally
109. 4:49that's at ewa sponsor comm if they want
110. 4:53to e VA SPO and sor comm if they want to
111. 4:56go and be sponsors and get tickets that
112. 4:58way another thing that i think is
113. 5:02important to say here is that evil
114. 5:05represents and embodies I mean she came
115. 5:08from a area in the world and from a
116. 5:10country that was from the most advanced
117. 5:13if not the most advanced in science and
118. 5:16technology in medicine and music and
119. 5:20culture and every way and you do you
120. 5:22would imagine that in a place like that
121. 5:23there wouldn't be evil and hate and she
122. 5:27saw and she saw that if there's no faith
123. 5:29in God and there's no optimism and
124. 5:31there's no hope for the future it would
125. 5:33be very be very difficult to overcome
126. 5:36the challenges she faced but you're
127. 5:39speaking about people want tickets yes
128. 5:41there's a limited amount left and there
129. 5:43are some sponsorship tickets left as
130. 5:45well okay well thank you for coming in
131. 5:48today we just have a few days left
132. 5:50before she'll be here yes we're excited
133. 5:52she's gonna wait waiting to welcome her
134. 5:54good good good all right well this is
135. 5:56Carla Hanson reporting for The Oklahoman
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