Jewish Identity in Captivity - Yelena Troufanov

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]The terrorists kept asking us, "Tell us the 10 Commandments." And we didn't really know them. Daniel remembered maybe five, I don't know how many. I didn't remember any at all, except for "Thou shalt not kill" and [music] "Thou shalt not steal." I didn't know. And they were pretty disappointed by that.

[00:00:15]After that, this guard [music] was friends with the guards of Sapir's group, so he went to visit them and then he came back to us and told us that he went and asked Sapir about the 10 Commandments >> [music] >> and she knew all of them.

[00:00:26]He was really excited about it. They really respected Sapir [music] specifically because she did know them and she was proud of being Jewish.

[00:00:33]They asked each person, "Are you Jewish?

[00:00:35]Are you Jewish? Are you [music] Jewish?"

[00:00:36]And people were pretty afraid to say, but she said, "I'm Jewish, Jewish, Jewish, Jewish." And they respected her for that.