More real-life inspirational stories more everyday
wonders--more answered prayers--from the TV show that has inspired
millions!
Astounding rescues ... divine intervention ... romantic
providence. Miracles are all around us--we have only to open our
minds...and our hearts. In this extraordinary second volume of
real-life stories, Richard Thomas has carefully selected dozens of
all-new tales from the successful PAX TV show It’s a Miracle. The
result is a completely new, utterly unforgettable collection--a
true celebration of ordinary people transformed by extraordinary
events.
A mother is reunited with the daughter she gave up for adoption
twenty-seven years earlier--all because of a miraculous encounter
in a nursing home... A woman whose older sister is in grave need of
a liver transplant meets a man on a plane whose nephew turns out to
be a perfect match... A courageous cat saves the lives of her
owners in an act of love that can be described only as
remarkable.
Share the healing, share the wonder of these amazing, joy-filled
stories that will warm your heart and strengthen your spirit.
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The Rosenblatt Love Story
The cruel, inhumane, and unimaginable images of World War II
concentration camps remain embedded in our hearts and minds. That
anyone could have survived these atrocities is a miracle. But
Herman Rosenblatt''s personal story is especially poignant . . . and
truly miraculous.
Herman was the youngest son in the Rosenblatt family, a loving
and happy group of people living in a small village in Poland. But
in 1939, the Rosenblatts were forced into a cramped Polish ghetto.
Their lives would never be the same. Three years later, Herman''s
father contracted typhus. It would be the first of many losses for
him. And he will never forget what his father said to him on his
deathbed.
" ''One thing you''ve got to remember,'' he said. ''Don''t hold a
grudge against nobody and tolerate everybody.'' And the next day, he
died."
Germany had taken control of Poland. And four months after his
father''s death, Herman and his family became victims of Hitler''s
Final Solution. The ghetto Jews were herded through the streets
like cattle, to be transported to their deaths. They were divided
into two groups: Herman was to be shipped with the men to a work
camp, and his mother was placed with the sick and disabled, to be
loaded on a train and sent to the notorious death camp
Treblinka.
"I ran over to my mother, and I said, ''I want to be with you. I
don''t want to go with my brothers,'' " recalls Herman. "She went
ahead and pushed me away. She said to me, ''Go with your brothers. I
don''t want you.'' Remember, I was at that time twelve years old. I
couldn''t get over why my mother told me she doesn''t want me. She
doesn''t love me. She went to Treblinka, where she was gassed and
died.
"After the war," Herman continues, "I understood why. I still do
today. I know why, in my mind, but in my heart, I don''t
know."
By 1944, Herman was a prisoner in a concentration camp outside
Berlin called Schlieben. Life there was a daily struggle under the
most horrendous conditions.
"It was hunger, hunger, and hunger," explains Herman. "We didn''t
get anything to eat. Just one slice of bread and water."
The only escape from constant hunger was in sleep and
dreams.
"Once, I was sleeping in the box, and I had a dream that my
mother came to me," Herman says, "and she said to me, ''Don''t worry,
you''ll be all right. I''m looking after you.'' And she disappeared.
And then came an angel who touched me, and she disappeared. And
then I woke up in a sweat."
The next day, while Herman was walking near the camp''s
barbed-wire fence, something caught his eye.
"There was a little girl standing there, looking into the camp,"
explains Herman. "So I asked her if she had something to eat. And
she looked at me. I had the paper suit on and some rags under my
feet, and she had a nice, warm jacket, and she took out an apple
and threw it. When I caught the apple, I ran away, but I heard her
say, ''See you tomorrow.'' I believe that the girl who came was the
angel my mother was sending to me."
Herman and the young girl continued to meet daily.
"She came every day," Herman says. "Not almost--she came every
day. I had it timed when the guards were gonna be in this area and
how long it would take another guard to come up, so that when I ran
up to the fence to grab the bread or the apple--whatever she threw
to me--I wouldn''t be seen by the guards. If the SS saw me, I would
get shot. But at that point, I didn''t care if I got killed or not.
As long as I could have some more to eat."
The day came when Herman was to be shipped to another camp, and
he said good-bye to the young girl.
"I looked back," Herman remembers, "and she was there. I saw a
tear come down her eye, and a tear came down my eye. And I ran
away. . . ."
The little girl knew that she would never see him again. When
prisoners left this camp, they were often sent to die in the gas
chambers.
Nine months later, the Allies liberated the concentration camps.
Miraculously, Herman gained his freedom on the very day he was
scheduled to be put to death in the gas chamber.
"It was an unbelievable scene," relates Herman. "I couldn''t
believe it myself. . . . At last, I''m free. . . ."
After spending several years in England and Israel, Herman and
his brothers emigrated to the United States and settled in New York
City. From 1949 to 1956, Herman was engaged to be married three
times, but each time he decided to call it off because he did not
feel that he had found his soul mate. And then, in 1957, Herman was
invited to join another couple on a date to Coney Island.
"He said, ''But she has a friend of hers who is Polish,'' " Herman
recalls. " ''And we can have a double date.'' I replied, ''No, I don''t
want to go on double dates. Especially blind dates.'' He persuaded
me, so I said, ''Okay.'' She was good-looking. I started to get
attracted to her. Eh, I thought to myself, Maybe, maybe after
tonight I''ll ask her for her telephone number."
Driving home that night, Herman and the young woman, Roma, began
talking about their past and discovered that they had actually met
once before. It was during his stay in Israel while serving in the
Israeli army. One night, he and some fellow soldiers went out with
a group of nurses. Roma was one of them.
"She said, ''I had a date with a guy,'' and I asked, ''What did he
look like?'' And she described him to me," recalls Herman, "and I
said, ''That was me.'' She said, ''Come on. It couldn''t be.'' I said,
''Yeah.'' "
It was an amazing coincidence that these two strangers had met
years before. But what was about to happen could only be described
as a miracle.
Herman continues, "She said to me, ''Where were you during the
war?'' I told her, ''I was in a concentration camp.'' Then she said to
me, ''I was near a camp, where I would throw food over the fences to
a boy.''
"I said to her, ''Did he have rags on his feet instead of shoes?''
She paused for a second, and then said, ''Yes.'' All of a sudden it
just hit me like a ton of bricks. I said to her, ''Did he tell you
not to come around anymore? That he was leaving?'' And she stopped
and looked at me."
"Yes," Roma told Herman.
"That was me. That was me," replied Herman. "We paused for a
while and didn''t say a word to each other. Then I looked at her,
and I said, ''Look, you saved my life. You are my angel. And you''re
going to be my angel.'' And I proposed to her."
"He said, ''You know, I''m going to marry you,'' " Roma adds. "And I
said, ''Crazy . . . we just met. How is this possible?'' "
Not only was it possible, it was somehow mysteriously meant to
be. Eleven months later, Herman and Roma were wed. The young boy
who managed to survive one of the darkest periods in human history,
and the angel who risked her life to help him stay alive, were now
husband and wife. And it seemed that nothing could have kept them
apart. Not a prison wall, not a separation that would last over
twelve years, not even the thousands of miles between a German
concentration camp and Coney Island.
"This is destiny," states Roma, "something that I felt very
strong. This is the man that God wanted me to have."
Herman and Roma recently celebrated their fortieth wedding
anniversary, and they returned to Coney Island to reminisce about
that miraculous night when they found each other again.
"Coney Island was the place that we really have special, special
feelings about," Roma says. "And I consider myself lucky that we
met, and thanks to my friend, and thanks to God, really, that we
are together."
"I think that my mother is watching me and she wants me to be
happy, and she actually sent Roma to me," Herman concludes. "The
miracle was that we kept bumping into each other all the time, and
we didn''t know it until the last day when we were sitting in the
car, and I asked her to marry me. I told her there are no others. .
. . There''s nobody else for me. And that''s it."
Kidney in Common
Teresa Dravk is a native of York, Pennsylvania. For most of her
life, she has suffered from serious heart and kidney problems that
have kept her housebound. But in 1997, Teresa discovered the
Internet--and it was about to open a whole new world for her.
"I was on there to make friends and to have somebody to talk to,"
says Teresa. "I wasn''t looking for love on the computer--that
wasn''t something that ever crossed my mind."
Teresa wanted to learn more about life in foreign countries and
so, one day, she signed on to a chat room that connected her with
people using the Web in Britain. Thousands of miles away in
Manchester, England, Ian Fleming discovered the same on-line site,
and he and Teresa started a private chat.
Teresa remembers, "It was the next day when I logged on, and
there was this message from the same man--and he had a bunch of
questions for me."
"I sent an E-mail to Teresa," Ian recalls, "and it said, ''I like
doing my cycling and reading. What do you like doing?'' because it
was the first person I have ever spoken to on the computer really.
She kept it interesting, kept it fun, and explained a lot about her
life to me."
The two strangers continued sending each other messages
daily.
"And then we found out we had a lot in common, and it just went
from there, as far as chatting," says Teresa.
Ian adds, "And it was basically every time I came home from work
and did my cycling and walked the dogs, I came in and hoped there
was a message from Teresa. I honestly don''t know at what point it
turned into a romance. It happened and I was glad it
happened."
"This was about the time I was starting to get sick with a heart
problem," says Teresa.
Teresa''s condition was serious and she was immediately scheduled
for emergency heart surgery. On the day of the operation, Ian
called her at the hospital.
"Well, I told him what was going on and he was very concerned. .
. . I was very scared. You know, at the idea of them doing surgery
where they were actually going to stop my heart and open me
up."
Ian remembers the conversation. He told Teresa, "Well, I was
thinking . . . I''ve got time at work that I can take off. Do you
want me to come over and visit you? We can spend a couple of weeks
together over the holidays."
Teresa was pleasantly surprised. "I said, ''Okay, if you''re sure.
I''d love to see you.'' And every time I heard his voice, it was
almost like taking a painkiller. I felt so much better just talking
to him."
Teresa''s operation was a success. And in December she found
herself at the airport, eagerly awaiting the arrival of the man
she''d met on the Internet just three months before.
"Teresa walked out into the middle of the crowd and gave me a big
hug, and our first kiss. And honestly, from that moment on, I was
hooked. . . . This was the one for me," Ian says.
Teresa recalls, "We just found ourselves connecting more and more
on not just superficial subjects like favorite things, but on life
issues."
And eleven days later, Ian proposed. Because of Teresa''s medical
condition, they decided to live in the United States. But before
Ian flew home to prepare for the move, they went shopping for an
engagement ring. The ring that Teresa chose would have to be
resized and would not be ready before Ian''s scheduled flight.
On January 6, the young couple said their good-byes. It would be
several months before they would see each other again, and during
that time, Teresa would become deathly ill. A tumor was discovered
on her kidney.
Her doctor, Michael J. Moritz, was extremely concerned. "Teresa
has a rather long medical history as relates to her kidney
problems, and she underwent her first kidney transplant in the
1980s, which lasted for quite a while, but ultimately did develop
chronic rejection."
The only option now was to remove both her kidneys. Ironically,
the day that Teresa was scheduled for the operation was the same
day that Ian returned to start their new life together. He had
picked up the engagement ring before coming to the hospital, and he
took this moment to slip it on the finger of the woman he loved--a
woman who might not live much longer if she didn''t find a kidney
donor.
Teresa remembers, "First, just having him back again after four
months, and then to have him put the ring on, knowing what I was
going through the next day . . . it was a very, very emotional
moment."
Ian wanted to be tested as a donor, but Teresa warned him of the
difficulties. She told him, "You know, it''s very hard on the donor.
And I don''t know if I want you to go through that pain."
Ian reasoned, "We''re going to be together the rest of our lives,
and I''m going to be in pain for only a couple of months, right? At
least it will improve the quality of our lives."
Teresa had her doubts. "I really didn''t think there was a chance
he was going to be a match. I thought we''d go ahead, do the blood
test, and that would be it, you know. They''d say, ''Well, I''m sorry,
but you''re not a match,'' and that would be all there was to
it."
Says Dr. Moritz, "As you''d expect, for any two unrelated human
beings, the odds of being a perfect match in their tissue type is
one in three million."
But miraculously, the tests came back positive. They had beaten
the incredible odds. Ian was that one person in three
million.
On September 19, 1998, Teresa and Ian were married. Their dual
surgeries were scheduled two months away. On the morning of
November 10, the newlyweds were being simultaneously prepped for
transplant surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in
Philadelphia.
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