In a twice-yearly tradition, the Western Wall received its pre-Rosh Hashanah deep cleaning, with heartfelt notes and prayers from around the world cleared out and stored in a special location to make room for the coming year.

Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Meislish, a Holocaust survivor who eventually found his way to Chicago, where he became a prominent rabbi, tells his personal and fascinating story of a shofar-blowing in Auschwitz.

The shofar, essentially a wake-up call, is sounded at least 30 times on Rosh Hashana. How much does it take to wake us up?