The shofar blowers

I saw the video below this morning on the Muqata blog and thought it was a must see before the High Holidays. Seeing the sacrifice made by Jews to blow the shofar will make us grateful for the easy opportunitites afforded us to hear the shofar these days. And the video also shows the "tolerance" exhibited to Jews so that they could practice their religion freely.
Read article at: http://muqata.blogspot.com/2010/09/echoes-of-shofar-in-jerusalem.html

One comment by Nachum caught my eye relating to a story from "A Tzadik in Our Time."

R' Aryeh Levin had come to daven with the prisoners on Yom Kippur, and they told him he should go home to Nachlaot before Neilah, so he wouldn't have to wait before breaking the fast afterwards. (He wouldn't have been able to eat in the prison.) But he stuck around, and quietly said to one of the prisoners, "We're going to have a new 'guest' tonight." Sure enough, the shofar blower for that year, a Beitar member, was brought in after the fast- R' Aryeh had stuck around so he'd be able to bring word to the boy's family as to where he was. (No one else could get him to even give his name.)