Meir Porges - How religion saved Meir's life
Transcript: After three or four days in one of the villages, they told me, Yes, there is a farmer here called, his name I remember to this day, Rusik. He had a rather large farm that was worked on by two sons, because he was rather elderly and couldn't work but the two sons were now in the army and he could barely do anything. Later it turned out to be my luck because I became familiar with their life. Later, when I came to this farmer, I had Christian documents. I knew about Christian customs. Each time I came to a village and asked if this was a Catholic or Evangelist village. When they told me it was Evangelist, I understood that I was Catholic and vice versa because they were intertwined In order to avoid making a mistake, and it did happen to me, when I made a mistake, and I did something wrong, they would make a comment to me. How do you pray? If they were Catholic, I would say "But we Lutherans pray like this". And the Lutherans would say "We the Catholics in this way" and that would save my life. The idea was to save my life.