Aaron and his Zionist comrades felt they had good reason to believe that the Holocaust would not have been nearly as devastating, if not for the passive preachings from most of the orthodox rabbis of Europe. The rabbis preached against organized Jewish military resistance and against Jewish emigration to Palestine. In a stunning revelation, listen as Aaron and his wife Helen relate how the chief kosher butcher and cantor of Bilke declared his Zionist son dead, because he emigrated to Palestine. The rabbis and their followers insisted that the Jews must wait for the Messiah to descend from the heavens to lead the Jewish people to the Promised Land. Similar incidents were occurring all over Eastern Europe, as the rabbis and their fanatic followers hurled stones at the outnumbered Zionists to expel them from Europe. These historical facts have rarely been revealed, which makes for a fascinating video.

When at last Aaron escapes from the Nazis and joins the Russian Army, he becomes enamored with their rousing marching song. The entire Russian brigade sang the tune together as they drove the Germans out of Russia. Aaron loved music and he knew the song as a youth, so he sang along and bonded with his Russian comrades as brothers. It was such a morale-booster, that it remained Aaron’s favorite song for the rest of his life. A video treat, at times very funny.

Aaron’s youth was peaceful and he grew up with an education and ran his family’s large farm in Eastern Czechoslovakia. Things changed within a few years, so that slowly but surely the Nazis and Hungarian Fascists took away the Jews’ rights ─ and indentured the Jewish men into slavery.

When Aaron and Helen immigrated to America in 1948, Aaron joined his older brothers in the laundry business. Aaron quickly became known as a tough boss—but a fair one. In this hilarious video, we see a different side of Aaron―his unique sense of humor, which included his ability to make fun of himself, as other family members try to impersonate Aaron, as boss of the laundry plant.

Sax related an outrageous story to Aaron which occurred before the War. The story is so pungently within Sax’s character, that it helps give us a further sense of the man, and why he became Aaron’s great friend—as well as his gravest bane.

Aaron’s wife Helen grew up in a religious orthodox family. Her two most pious brothers, Hillel and Wolf, aspired to be rabbis. Aaron pokes some good-natured fun at their zealous piety. When Helen’s brother Wolf gets drafted into the Czechoslovakian Army dressed in orthodox garb, he instantly becomes the laughing-stock of the whole regiment, able to speak only Yiddish and Hebrew, refusing to eat the army’s non-kosher food. Although Aaron jokes about Wolf’s plight, he comes to Wolf’s rescue, risking his own military career, but ingratiating himself with Helen’s family as Wolf’s savior.