Aish.com has produced a short and inspiring film entitled, “Heroes of Israel - Chief Rabbi Lau.” It recounts the story of Rabbi Lau, Buchenwald concentration camp’s youngest survivor. The camp’s Gestapo Commander Kissling gathered the child prisoners and told them, “I do not need you. You are useless… and you are a waste to the German war effort.” Lau convinced Kissling that he could indeed work as a child, and started carrying water for the adult slave laborers. Rau survived to see the camp’s liberation and then emigrated to Israel. Rau’s father was a rabbi in a long line of 37 generations of rabbis. Rau decided to continue the line, become a rabbi, and carry the torch of Judaism forward. He concluded, “Yet there is something in the soul of the Jew — some inner point that binds him to tradition. This is the essence of Jewish identity.” I can only agree and tip my hat to Rabbi Lau. Please watch the film and get inspired: