“from the depths I cry to You”
Early 1940s…. Jewish prisoners laying tefillin…(putting on tefillin) in the corpse–laden death pits of Poland’s death camps (1942 CE – 1945 CE, in particular).
Force–marched through the gates of hell, and now in the very depths of hell, these surreal Orthodox Jews, hounded into Poland’s death camps on a vector towards their enslavement and mass–murder, will face their torturers unflinchingly, and on their own terms, “keeping the Covenant” ad extremum.
[Tefillin, phylacteries, are ritually strapped around the head and the (weaker) arm by male Jewish adults for the (non–Sabbath or Holiday). Morning Prayer sequence (Shacharit)].