Released From the Support Team Study Vault! – The Lost Scrolls of Auschwitz

November 1, 2023

In this Support Team Study, The Lost Scrolls of Auschwitz, Nehemia Gordon explains how a series of scrolls hidden by Jews facing imminent death during the Holocaust, serve as a rare testimony of human dignity, the importance of free speech, … Continue reading →

In this Support Team Study, The Lost Scrolls of Auschwitz, Nehemia Gordon explains how a series of scrolls hidden by Jews facing imminent death during the Holocaust, serve as a rare testimony of human dignity, the importance of free speech, and the glory of Yehovah.

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Support Team Study – The Lost Scrolls of Auschwitz

Nehemia: Before I get started, I want to really thank you guys for having me. And particularly, I want to thank Dr. Burckel, who’s the head of this university, and I want to thank the Israeli Alliance at McNeese. Can we get a round of applause for them?

Audience: [Audience applauds]

Nehemia: I don’t want to miss anybody. Dr. Mi, who’s the advisor to the Israeli Alliance at McNeese, Kyle, Clifton, Joe, and last but not least, Adam Harris, who contacted me and said, “Would you come and speak here?” And he assumed I was in Israel at the time. It happened to be that I was spending some time in Dallas, Texas, and I said, “Yeah, that's less than an hour flight, sure.”

My name is Nehemia Gordon. You can call me Nechemia, Nehemiah, Nihamiah, just don’t call me Baldy!

Audience: [Audience laughs]

Nehemia: It’s very sensitive! Although this is a choice… I tell myself that every day… and it becomes less and less of a choice every day!

So, in any event, I grew up in Chicago. My father was an Orthodox Rabbi in Chicago, and a lawyer. I moved to Israel in 1993 and lived in Jerusalem for over 20 years where I studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I did a double major for my undergrad, Biblical Studies and Archeology. I found out that archeology is digging through ancient garbage, and decided to continue in Biblical Studies and got my master’s in biblical studies. I worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls and with various Hebrew manuscripts.

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Eric SpergerJuly 20, 2022 at 7:40 PM

I consider myself pretty well read on WWII death camps but have never heard of the Auschwitz Scrolls. It’s hard to hold back the tears. Thank you for sharing this-may we never forget.

Rae Lloyd-JonesJanuary 1, 2022 at 3:59 AM

Nehemia, can I ask you something about the Sanctification of The Name in how one lives and dies, in relation to a New Testament Manuscript of Revelation, from the Cambridge University Library? I edit for an author (who you know) who is currently working on/provenancing Renewed Covenant manuscripts/writings in Hebrew. In the manuscript I am looking at, CUL Ms. Oo 1.16, at Revelation 14:13, which differs somewhat from our Greek/English translations, it says in the Hebrew, and this is a transcription from the Cochin letter forms into modern block Hebrew: קדושים המה המתים על קידוש השם מעכשיו ואמת
I was working through this CUL Ms. Oo 1.16 transcription today, and when I came across Rev.14:13, I remembered your presentation on the Lost Scrolls of Auschwitz – I remembered you talking about this very Hebrew/Jewish concept of Sanctifying God’s Name in the manner of one’s death.
I am not a Hebrew scholar, I have struggled for years to learn Torah-Hebrew – even though I have tried so hard, so I am still unfortunately reliant on people who know more than me. I just want to know, is THAT what THIS verse in the Cambridge manuscript of Revelation, 14:13, is talking about? That this is the hope of the set-apart ones, those who walk in the mitzvot of Yehovah and look to Messiah’s coming, and kiddush HaShem at their death? That certainly makes more sense to me, in a concrete way, than what we have in our Greek-to-English translations, “blessed are the dead that die in the lord”. The verse reads like this, from the CUL manuscript, in my friend’s translation, “Blessed are they who die on account of the sanctification of the Name from now on! And what the Ruach says is true: that they rest from their works, for their works follow after them”.
Looking forward to your thoughts.
Rae
Australia

Paul CaseMay 6, 2021 at 1:10 AM

We should NOT say ‘kill the Jews’.
We should NOT say ‘Nuke Iran’.

Jean EllisApril 10, 2021 at 3:15 PM

Free speech is still under attack.

rich ArmentroutJanuary 22, 2021 at 10:01 AM

This was fascinating and powerful and so necessary to be shared. Please make this available to everyone. We are still uncovering the truth that happened while many are trying to cover this truth up and rewrite history. Thank you so much for your tenacity and dedication to finding truth. May YAH continue to bless you and surround you with HIS favor as with a shield ????.

Linda SackNovember 20, 2020 at 7:00 PM

Nehemia, this is powerful and so important. Thank you for your service to YaH, it impacts so many lives and mine especially.
I went to Yad Vashem a couple times and looked for family names. My grandfather’s name was Saccutto, but he used to tell me stories of how their family suffered persecution in Portugal and they fled to Holland way back in the day of the edict of 1492. They eventually ended up in Italy.
He said many changed the spelling of their names to avoid being recognized as Jews. Zacuto was possibly the name to begin with. Or even Succoth. One family member changed it to Sancto to sound Catholic.
When my grand mom had her first child the mid-wife gave my grandfather a paper to bring to the court and register the birth. They couldn’t make out her writing so they shortened it to Sack. He was told to bring this paper when any other children were born. So all the children were Sack and he and my grand mom remained Saccutti. ( Which they messed up as well and altered it from Saccutto to Saccutti.) What a travesty.

Cyndie SimmonsJuly 13, 2020 at 12:10 AM

Thank you Nehemia for sharing this incredibly painful past history, especially during our times when people are trying to deny the Holocaust ever existed and erase history. My aunt Lucy was a little girl when her family went into Auschwitz and to this day she cannot talk about it. I so appreciate all you share with the world! May יהוה Yehôvâh continue to bless all the work of your hands my friend!!

Debra WilcoxJuly 29, 2019 at 7:19 PM

By the way, I stand up for America and Israel. My dad served during WWII in the Army’s 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion and was apart of the liberating forces of Dachau. My mother’s uncles and her father served in the Army, too. Truth! I know the real history that is never taught in schools…like your talk about the Lost Scrolls of Auswitz.

Debra WilcoxJuly 29, 2019 at 7:08 PM

Oh my! This moved me, profoundly! I know that the Holocaust was real, as I know that genocide is real, as well as, apartheid. People can pretend that history does not repeat itself. But, it does and will…if good men, women and children don’t stand up against evil. Thanks, Nehemia, for the history lesson. Thanks too for reminding us to stand for TRUTH! Thanks for reminding me to love God… The Eternal …Yehovah with every fiber of my being, not just in the good times but, particularly, in the hard, bad and life-threatening times! Shalom.

Roni WaltersMay 2, 2019 at 8:29 PM

While sections of this were difficult and almost unbearable, they need to be taught. I shed many tears watching it.

One thing I like about being a homeschooler is I can teach history as fact. The holocaust and its atrocities aren’t some made-up event, but actual, documented, provable truth. Thank you for this teaching. I’ll be adding it to our curriculum. And I’ll make sure we have a box or two of tissues handy.

Blessings on you and Makor Foundation!

Oscar HernandezMay 2, 2019 at 9:12 AM

I’m not a Jew (that I know of) but I openly wept through this podcast. I find it hard to type as my hands are still wet with tears.
John’s gospel also records when Yeshua informed Simon Kefa by which death he would glorify God. An explicit kiddush HaShem in the first century.

Jay BaxtresserApril 30, 2019 at 12:31 AM

Shema Isreal!!!May His name be sanctified!!!

Joann MarieJanuary 29, 2019 at 11:01 PM

I am glad I watched this. I noticed you mentioned having Aspergers and being obsessed with the truth… those things are true of me as well. Thank you for all you do to bring truth to whoever will listen…

Pam DrobnySeptember 11, 2018 at 12:27 PM

Nehemiah, I share your intense concern over why this is not being taught in our schools and universities. Rather the opposite- filling minds with propaganda laden with lies. This was profound on so many levels. Thank you. I finished reading “Gated Grief” by Leila Levinson. The daughter of a GI concentration camp liberator discovers a legacy of trauma. She knew nothing of her father’s experience until she found letters in a basement trunk. Filled with photographs and notes from Nordhausen. More proof of the horror.
Bless you, Nehemiah.

Maria TuckeySeptember 11, 2018 at 2:42 AM

I am amazed that Yehovah continually reveals more history confirming the truth of the past even as more people are denying that the Holocaust even happened. Thank you for your part in uncovering these discoveries and sharing them with us. This is a warning, an enlightening and a reminder to repent and be ready to stand for truth and Yehovah’s name regardless of what it may cost us…even unto death.

Glenn ChaseSeptember 9, 2018 at 2:54 PM

Powerful! ” Nehemia” this is the Reason we support your effort’s.
I guess I don’t have the word’s to express the need to uncover the Info still at large!
My Wife has from the first time we experienced your teaching, Said Nehemiah is truly called out by Ya Ho Vah and I must Agree!
Truly a Revelation of the History of Gods Chosen! Truth will always prevail.
GREAT MESSAGE– Thank You

Samuel BellSeptember 8, 2018 at 11:59 AM

My wife watched as soon as it was published, then she encouraged us to listen together. Powerful, incredible, full of information and inspiration! The whole world needs to know!

Sam

Guillermo GuerreroSeptember 8, 2018 at 11:34 AM

Thanks Nehemia… excellent as always!! May Yehovah bless you!

John WIckesSeptember 7, 2018 at 1:03 PM

Nehemia, I’m only at the 16 min mark, this is too powerful to be support team only…
Thank you
Blessings

Pam DrobnySeptember 4, 2018 at 9:30 AM

Tearful. Faith inspiring. Wake up call to America and our world….never again! Use every opportunity to speak out against antisemitism. Sanctify His Name. Thank you Nehemia.

Rocky JacksonSeptember 3, 2018 at 8:44 PM

Having the privilege to actually meet two living Holocaust survivors changed my life forever,
Hearing this message on top of what a very elderly man seemly out of nowhere tells me what happened to him at 17 ..
Along with the testimony of a woman who survived with her aunt as a child whom her family was murdered.
It begs me to ask myself this question am I going to be found with the faith to sing the Shema in the midst of my last moments of life.

Laurie GieslerSeptember 2, 2018 at 7:02 PM

Amazing, saddening, inspiring … so many emotions!

Daniel DiegmannSeptember 1, 2018 at 6:54 PM

On one hand, my heart bleeds, on the other hand, I see purpose, for warning and soberness with what may come again. Not only, “Never again” but also, “Not, on my watch.” May YeHoVaH, keep an guard His people in the Land and outside His Capital throughout His globe.

Paul MooreSeptember 1, 2018 at 5:14 PM

Wow! Powerful! Thank you Nehemia!

Valerica LundeSeptember 1, 2018 at 5:03 PM

Toda, Nehemia Gordon! This is very sad. Thank you for sharing the truth with us! You are a good speaker and a good writer.

Daniel and Elissa GalushaSeptember 1, 2018 at 1:32 AM

Nehemiah, you were so informative, with details that needed revealing. Seems it’s 1933 all over again. P. S. we miss you up here in North West. Dan & Elissa

Jodie O'DellAugust 31, 2018 at 11:23 PM

Wowzers. This episode was enthralling, and I think I cried several times. I felt like I was there. I can’t waot to share it with my family. Thank you, Nehemia, for bringing these stories. We need to know!

Roxanne LaneAugust 31, 2018 at 7:24 PM

Thank you Nehemia. May Yehovah bless you and keep you in all your endeavors.

Marcella WilsonAugust 31, 2018 at 7:07 AM

I have known the general stories of the Holocaust, but I did not know the details you revealed. It is both awful and inspiring.Thank you for giving voice to their suffering and triumphs.

Will anyone ever attempt to recover the other lost scrolls? Don’t their stories and records deserve to be uncovered and told? Isn’t it time?

Kirk and Sandra IventoschAugust 31, 2018 at 6:35 AM

My heart is broken anew. Thank you Nehemia. To die for the sanctification of His Name, this I can do. But to live for it? This you do.

Kimberly KeyesAugust 30, 2018 at 11:14 PM

Wow! I don’t even know what to say. Very touching, sad, encouraging, all at the same time. Thank you. There is no way I would have learned of this if not for you sharing it. May Yehovah bless you for your obedience to bring the knowledge you have been given to the nations.

Alexander KuvshinovAugust 30, 2018 at 11:15 AM

Thank you for sharing, Nehemia.

I live and pray in hope that martyrdom is not the only way to sanctify Yehovah.

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance

Shalom

Devorah ShaltielAugust 29, 2018 at 6:30 PM

Nehemia, Yehovah is sending us warnings and messages! Blessed is Yehovah who is a strong tower! It breaks my heart to hear that the Nazis laws on who is a Jew are more lenient than Rabbinical Halacha! Just think with genealogy and technology which was then in it’s infancy now moving on to perfection no one with a jewish grandparent is safe regardless of what religion they practice.

For example Bnai Anousim are running home and the doors are being shut in their faces. It feels like our brothers are being sacrificed for the sake of peace plans and land partitions. Even the Negev is up for dispute. In order to frustrate the plan of Yehovah? Let Yehovah arise and His enemies be scattered!

Nehemia, being a descendant of Caribbean Jews, I have felt the sense of urgency to return. We are coming in all colors and flavors. The price and sacrifice are very high. However, you would understand.

You mentioned Iran. If Iran or any of our enemies fails to destroy Israel then it will try to depopulate with psychological pogroms and spiritual deception. Which is well on it’s way. We cannot afford to be naive and passive.

I’m having trouble digesting the inquisition (Shabbos Police) but the Shoah is hard to swallow.

So, I really appreciate this thought provoking and sensitive topic. You delivered the message with great precision and wisdom. May Yehovah bless and prosper you!

Karen PolcsikAugust 29, 2018 at 4:59 PM

Thank you Nehemiah, for this information and sobering account. Everyone needs to hear this. In a world so obsessed with materialism, just the account alone of those who were stripped of their humanity and cruelly annihilated should be a wake up call for the complacent. Add to the fact that their statement of faith (the Shema), their confession, the meaning and sanctification of the Name of YHVH is so powerful that everyone, regardless of their faith background, should be brought to their knees. This has not been that long ago and these eye witness accounts are extraordinary. If only it was possible that more of the “scrolls” could be unearthed. Many blessings to you and your research. Thank you for searching for the truth and being so faithful.

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