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An old photo of Rabbi Zalman Chneerson (in the U.S. written as Schneerson), who helped other Jews during the Holocaust. (Courtesy of OSE (Oeuvre de secours aux enfants) collection in Paris)New York - Of the countless tragic stories told in Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem, the official commemoration institute of the Holocaust, not one is about the Jewish rescuers of Jews. But today, the memory of one rabbi is being kept alive by the people he helped save.
“The world has to know what this wonderful rabbi accomplished in his life,” said Bertha Schwartz who survived the Holocaust thanks to Rabbi Zalman Schneerson. She was speaking at a symposium at Carlebach Shul in New York on July 30, dedicated to exploring the topic of Jews saving Jews.
Rabbi Schneerson was one of the Jewish heroes of the Holocaust, and afterwards went unrecognized by the authorities, says Harriet Jackson, French historian and archivist formerly at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Schneerson died in 1980.
According to Jackson, Rabbi Schneerson and his family helped save the lives of hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust in France.
“Between 1940 to 1943, we were always on the run,” Ms. Schwartz is quoted as saying in an interview with Jackson. Schwartz, who was rescued by Rabbi Schneerson as a child, and now educates people about the Holocaust. She was nine years old when her father got arrested by the French police and her mother sent her and her younger sister, Malka, age six, away.
The girls were sent to report to a branch office of the American Joint Distribution Committee and meet their guardian, who was then arrested by the French police.
“My sister and I were terrified,” said Ms. Schwartz.
Two train stops before being transferred to the extermination camp, Rabbi Schneerson found out where they were and sent his “Yeshiva boys” to bring them to his home.
Bertha and her sister are the only two living survivors among many who were saved by Rabbi Schneerson.
No Honor at Yad Vashem
In contrast to Jews, non-Jewish rescuers of Jews receive greater gratitude and recognition at the iconic Yad Vashem. The official Web site contains a section dedicated to the subject.
Dr. Mordecai Paldiel, former director of the Department of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem says that the museum neglected the stories of the Jewish rescuers, and no program was devised to acknowledge their deeds. But he adds that this was not the only group that was not immediately recognized.
“Even with regard to gentile rescuers of Jews, an item written in the Yad Vashem law, it took many years before Yad Vashem began to deal with it, or rather, was forced to deal with this,” says Dr. Paldiel.
According to Yad Vashem, the element of risk for Jews helping Jews was different from that of bystanders getting personally involved.
“In what concerns Jews, this distinction cannot be made, since all Jews were destined for extermination and therefore were in mortal danger no matter what they did,” says Yad Vashem’s Web site. “Helping fellow Jews could have augmented that danger in a particular instance, but evading danger altogether was not an option.”
Dr. Paldiel is still trying to change the status of recognition for heroic Jews, but is also aware of the difficulties.
“From my 24 years of work at Yad Vashem, I realize how very hard it is to change anything at Yad Vashem, unless it’s an idea originating from a donor giving a gift which runs into the millions,” said Dr. Paldiel.
Dr. Paldiel believes that if the World Jewish Congress could launch a “Jewish Rescuers of Jews” program, it would act as a catalyst for Yad Vashem to do something similar.
For now, the history of Jews who rescued Jews is being kept alive by Schwartz, Dr. Paldiel, Jackson, and others
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Aug 03, 2009 at 02:05 PM mark levin Says:Report as Inappropriate
who the heck needs them . the aibishter knows the good that these yidden had done. they don't need yad vashems worthless trophies
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Aug 03, 2009 at 02:07 PM Avrohom Abba Says:Report as Inappropriate
Too bad Yad Vashem has just allowed itself to turn into a moneymaker, but refuses to change spiritually to reflect the great contribution of this wonderful tzadik hador to all klal Yisrael.
I was at his levaya because my father a"h took me there, and I remember it well. May Rabbi Schneerson's neshama rest in Gan Eden.
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Aug 03, 2009 at 02:34 PM Chaim S. Says:Report as Inappropriate
Yad Vashem has always been run by very secular elements of Israeli society. These people have given almost no recognition to anything about frum society in pre-WW2 Europe. The main recognition has always been of gentiles who saved Jews. True these are definitely from the chasidei umos haolam who deserve recognition for what they did. But you'll never see anything about frum yidden saving anybody. It's against their principles.
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Aug 03, 2009 at 02:24 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
reichmans (paul, and especially their mother) were very instrumental in helping hungerian jews during the occupation. they lived in morocco and she even travelled to hungary during the war. read the book about the family.
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Aug 03, 2009 at 02:38 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
Again another lubavitcher chossid helping yidden!!
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Aug 03, 2009 at 03:35 PM zahav18 Says:Report as Inappropriate
Can someone telll us more about this Rabbi Schneerson? Was he related to the Rebbe? It seems he survived the war--what did he do afterwards?
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Aug 03, 2009 at 03:42 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Yad Vashem has always been run by very secular elements of Israeli society. These people have given almost no recognition to anything about frum society in pre-WW2 Europe. The main recognition has always been of gentiles who saved Jews. True these are definitely from the chasidei umos haolam who deserve recognition for what they did. But you'll never see anything about frum yidden saving anybody. It's against their principles. ”
Yad Vashem is very particular about secularizing the holocaust. They never allow the abbreviations z"l zichronom livrocho or h"yd hashem yinkom dumun to foillow a victims name.
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Aug 03, 2009 at 04:51 PM eli b. Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Again another lubavitcher chossid helping yidden!! ”
Pardon me, what do you mean 'again'? And what makes you think R' Zalman Schneerson was a lubavitcher? If anything he was in a 'league' all his own being an einekl of the kopuster. but you probably wouldn't know that. On another note, it's ironic that the current carlebacher rebbe ( host of this event) is his great-grandson.
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Aug 03, 2009 at 04:49 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
famous articles have been written about him, try the "kfar chabad magazine"
He has been well know among the Lubavitchers in France
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Aug 03, 2009 at 04:52 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Yad Vashem is very particular about secularizing the holocaust. They never allow the abbreviations z"l zichronom livrocho or h"yd hashem yinkom dumun to foillow a victims name.
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Rav Lau shlit"a is now in charge there which is why stories like this are coming to light only at this time.
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Aug 03, 2009 at 05:36 PM kop dr, Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Can someone telll us more about this Rabbi Schneerson? Was he related to the Rebbe? It seems he survived the war--what did he do afterwards? ”
he was the Rebbas first coussin his son reb sholm ber has a shull in flatbush on e.12th st, and sholom ber has 2 sons one yossi and the other mendel, a very nice family,
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Aug 03, 2009 at 04:25 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
he was the rebbes fathers cousin ,and it was at his home in france that the rebbes mother stayed in , until 1947 when the rebbe came to pick her up and bring her to the united states
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Aug 03, 2009 at 04:11 PM bubba Says:Report as Inappropriate
yad Vashem has never recognized the work of the Bergson Group
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Aug 03, 2009 at 03:47 PM moishe Says:Report as Inappropriate
Yad Vashem never mentions:
1)Fransisco Franco- he save 600000.00 yiden- because he was not "democratic"
2)Leitz Family (Leica camera)- who save 2000 yiden because they worked for Germany.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE????
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Aug 03, 2009 at 06:28 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ he was the Rebbas first coussin his son reb sholm ber has a shull in flatbush on e.12th st, and sholom ber has 2 sons one yossi and the other mendel, a very nice family, ”
and where are these grandchildren now?never heard of them this family and i was ayoung person in the 1980 but old enough to know this
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Aug 03, 2009 at 07:10 PM anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
In Spain the Nazi organized the Condor legion a German Luftwaffe division which for the first time used the Stuka or dive bomber later used o Amsterdam and Warsaw. Don't make a hero out of Franco and in 1948 a Spanish cardinal wanted to revive the Crusades against little state of Israel. You people see things in black and white
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Aug 03, 2009 at 07:10 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
I was at that symposium. It was on Tisha B'Av at the Carlebach Shul. Rabbi Schneerson's daughter, Hadassah Carlebach (who married the late Rabbi Eli Chaim Carlebach, Reb Shlomo's brother) spoke too.
She was only a young teenager, 15-16 yrs old, and she spoke of her father and how she too was assigned roles to perform in saving these children.
Rabbi Schneerson and the Lubavitcher Rebbe were SECOND cousins.
(Hadassah Carlebach's grandson, Rabbi Naftali Citron, is the rabbi of the Carlebach Shul.)
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Aug 03, 2009 at 07:03 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ and where are these grandchildren now?never heard of them this family and i was ayoung person in the 1980 but old enough to know this ”
mendel lives in ch and yossi lives in los angeles!
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Aug 03, 2009 at 08:12 PM Cometition Says:Report as Inappropriate
Yad Veshem needs a serious competitor, which will preserve and display all of the Holocaust true evidence, which Yad Vashem will never, ever, tell anyone.
For example, stories of the non-frum world's role in the Holocaust, in Not Helping save lives because the Zionists (during the war) only wanted non-frum Yidden to be "saved" in Israel and all other similar stories which reflect badly on the non-frum and also reflect badly on gentiles such as the USA which was also guilty of the Nazi Murders, because the USA passively ignored what they knew of Yidden being Killed and they refused suggestions to bomb the Train Tracks which led to the concentration camps.
The USA and other "free word", were not always such "Chassidey Umos Haolam", when they all sat quietly (perhaps happily) while Yidden were Killed and did Nothing to stop it, (pretending not to know), not until Germany attacked them too.
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Aug 03, 2009 at 08:54 PM Harriet Jackson Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ reichmans (paul, and especially their mother) were very instrumental in helping hungerian jews during the occupation. they lived in morocco and she even travelled to hungary during the war. read the book about the family. ”
Please provide full reference to the book. I'd like to read it. Thank you.
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Aug 03, 2009 at 09:27 PM Harriet Jackson Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Can someone telll us more about this Rabbi Schneerson? Was he related to the Rebbe? It seems he survived the war--what did he do afterwards? ”
Rabbi Zalman Schneerson remained in France, with his family, until 1947 and continued to direct the association he founded, the Association des Israelites Pratiquants (AIP). As soon as the Allies liberated France in August 1944, Rabbi Schneerson launched a massive campaign to find Jewish children who had been hidden in France by non-Jews. Most of the letters he sent to thousands of local officials (mayors) in France, 1944-46, were answered, but without any leads on the whereabouts of the Jewish children. The rabbi lobbied the French government to help Jews living in DP camps. He also worked with US Army chaplains (rabbis) in France to help revitalize the Jewish community. Last but not least, the rabbi and his family offered their home in Paris, at 10 rue Dieu in the 10th arrondissement, to Jews in transit from DP camps on their way to the United States. Many reunions of friends and familly took place in Rabbi Schneerson's home in Paris, including the reunion of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn with his mother in 1947. They spelled their names differently but they were related. Rabbi Zalman Schneerson's association (AIP) also helped support refugee families living in Paris. After coming to the United States in 1947, Rabbi Schneerson and his wife Sara set up synagogues in New Jersey, Chicago, and Brooklyn. Daughter Hadassa married Eli Chaim Carlebach and son Cholember married Shaindel also from a distinguished Chasidic lineage. I am currently writing a scholarly book on Rabbi Schneerson, his family, and the AIP, 1936-47.
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Aug 03, 2009 at 09:39 PM esther Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Pardon me, what do you mean 'again'? And what makes you think R' Zalman Schneerson was a lubavitcher? If anything he was in a 'league' all his own being an einekl of the kopuster. but you probably wouldn't know that. On another note, it's ironic that the current carlebacher rebbe ( host of this event) is his great-grandson. ”
what is a carlbacher rebbe?is that for real?
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Aug 03, 2009 at 09:52 PM Harriet Jackson Says:Report as Inappropriate
Dear Eyal,
Thank you so much for writing an important article. Do you know if anyone carries the paper in Riverdale or the Upper West Side near Columbia? I'd be happy to purchase some copies of the issue.
I'd like to point out some errors none of which, fortunately, detract from the substance of your article.
I'd like to point out a few errors that do not compromise the integrity and value of the article.
1. The photograph of Rabbi Schneerson is courtesy ofHadassa Carlebach (not the OSE organization in France).
2. Bertha Schwarz and her sisters are not the sole survivors of Rabbi Zalman Schneerson's rescue efforts during the Holocaust. There are many others who are still alive. For example, Rabbi David Lieberman, who is Chief Rabbi of Anvers, Belgium, was rescued by Rabbi Schneerson as was Rabbi Aaron Silberstrom, who currently lives in Jerusalem.
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Aug 03, 2009 at 10:12 PM Kayla Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Rabbi Zalman Schneerson remained in France, with his family, until 1947 and continued to direct the association he founded, the Association des Israelites Pratiquants (AIP). As soon as the Allies liberated France in August 1944, Rabbi Schneerson launched a massive campaign to find Jewish children who had been hidden in France by non-Jews. Most of the letters he sent to thousands of local officials (mayors) in France, 1944-46, were answered, but without any leads on the whereabouts of the Jewish children. The rabbi lobbied the French government to help Jews living in DP camps. He also worked with US Army chaplains (rabbis) in France to help revitalize the Jewish community. Last but not least, the rabbi and his family offered their home in Paris, at 10 rue Dieu in the 10th arrondissement, to Jews in transit from DP camps on their way to the United States. Many reunions of friends and familly took place in Rabbi Schneerson's home in Paris, including the reunion of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn with his mother in 1947. They spelled their names differently but they were related. Rabbi Zalman Schneerson's association (AIP) also helped support refugee families living in Paris. After coming to the United States in 1947, Rabbi Schneerson and his wife Sara set up synagogues in New Jersey, Chicago, and Brooklyn. Daughter Hadassa married Eli Chaim Carlebach and son Cholember married Shaindel also from a distinguished Chasidic lineage. I am currently writing a scholarly book on Rabbi Schneerson, his family, and the AIP, 1936-47. ”
Great work, Harriet. I look forward to reading your book
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Aug 03, 2009 at 10:56 PM Aguna Says:Report as Inappropriate
Zalman Schneerson was the one that was in charge of being matir Agunos in France after the war...
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Aug 04, 2009 at 02:53 AM matzahlocal101 Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Yad Veshem needs a serious competitor, which will preserve and display all of the Holocaust true evidence, which Yad Vashem will never, ever, tell anyone.
For example, stories of the non-frum world's role in the Holocaust, in Not Helping save lives because the Zionists (during the war) only wanted non-frum Yidden to be "saved" in Israel and all other similar stories which reflect badly on the non-frum and also reflect badly on gentiles such as the USA which was also guilty of the Nazi Murders, because the USA passively ignored what they knew of Yidden being Killed and they refused suggestions to bomb the Train Tracks which led to the concentration camps.
The USA and other "free word", were not always such "Chassidey Umos Haolam", when they all sat quietly (perhaps happily) while Yidden were Killed and did Nothing to stop it, (pretending not to know), not until Germany attacked them too. ”
As long as we're on it less discuss Yad Vashem's idea of a holocaust hero.
1) Kastner. Kastner not consealed the Rudy vrba report, which had tremondous credibility due to it's detail, thereby hiding from the Hungarians Jews that trains meant certain death. But he actually went to Eichmann and asked him "You guys wouldn't really do the these things in this report, would you?" Causing Eichmann to speed up the deportations before the report became public. The blood of 438,000 Hungarians Jews rest squarely on Kastners shoulders. Of course he's a hero because he saved 1600 people mostly Zionists, his friends and family, and a few rabbanim. Vrba was furious when he found out that two months after sending the report to Kastner, he hadn't released it.
1)Stephen Wise: Who campaigned against the bergson group and attempted to squelch the production of "We will never die" which was an attempt to bring attention to the ongoing annihilation in Europe. He was a mekurav to Roosevelt and advised Roosevelt not to meet with the 400 rabbanim when they marched on Washington in 1943. Oh yeah, he was ardent Zionist.
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Aug 04, 2009 at 02:46 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
For those of you who are convinced Yad Vashem is somehow ignoring the frum narrative, you should try actually VISITING sometime. Despite someone's claim that it is a "money maker" it's free for anyone to visit. I went just before Tish B'Av and my guide pointed out MANY places that had important documents from Frum Jews or about Frum Jews. One section had a tish alongside a Rabbi's last Parsha before he was taken to the camps. There are many religious articles present from the times, there are videos with frum Jews talking about their experiances, what else do you want? Yad Vashem is not JUST for frum people so frum people are not all they talk about, but they DO talk about them.
And of course they have no special zone for frum Jews saving Jews (there is no special zone for non-fum Jews either). Jews are expected to take care of each other. They have a section from the non-Jews who saved Jews because most of the non-Jews couldn't have cared less that the shoah was happening in their backyards.
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Aug 04, 2009 at 08:09 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Rabbi Zalman Schneerson remained in France, with his family, until 1947 and continued to direct the association he founded, the Association des Israelites Pratiquants (AIP). As soon as the Allies liberated France in August 1944, Rabbi Schneerson launched a massive campaign to find Jewish children who had been hidden in France by non-Jews. Most of the letters he sent to thousands of local officials (mayors) in France, 1944-46, were answered, but without any leads on the whereabouts of the Jewish children. The rabbi lobbied the French government to help Jews living in DP camps. He also worked with US Army chaplains (rabbis) in France to help revitalize the Jewish community. Last but not least, the rabbi and his family offered their home in Paris, at 10 rue Dieu in the 10th arrondissement, to Jews in transit from DP camps on their way to the United States. Many reunions of friends and familly took place in Rabbi Schneerson's home in Paris, including the reunion of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn with his mother in 1947. They spelled their names differently but they were related. Rabbi Zalman Schneerson's association (AIP) also helped support refugee families living in Paris. After coming to the United States in 1947, Rabbi Schneerson and his wife Sara set up synagogues in New Jersey, Chicago, and Brooklyn. Daughter Hadassa married Eli Chaim Carlebach and son Cholember married Shaindel also from a distinguished Chasidic lineage. I am currently writing a scholarly book on Rabbi Schneerson, his family, and the AIP, 1936-47. ”
I would like to read your book. I was a student of R. Schneerson in the early 70's and I knew him well.
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Aug 04, 2009 at 10:28 AM Rivka Says:Report as Inappropriate
Superb job, Harriet! Thank you for the informative details concerning the rescue efforts of this Rabbi Schneerson and his daughter, Hadassah Carlebach. I definitely look forward to reading your book!
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Aug 04, 2009 at 12:17 PM OMG Says:Report as Inappropriate
In know way am I trying to minimize what Rabbi Zalman Schneerson Z’LV did however, the truth is that every day there was millions of unselfish acts by religious or none religious Jews, who put their own life on the line to help a brother in need, sometime with sharing a scraps of food, or help provide shoes, or a blanket to keep warm, or these capos who know that mothers with children will be send to the left i.e. gas chambers, and In the selection line pulled away children from their mothers and hand them over to old woman. There are millions of survival stories out there. Each person who survived could tell thousands of reason and little anecdotes how he survived with help from Hashem and others.
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Aug 04, 2009 at 01:57 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
2 points
1. Rabbi Zalman Schneerson B"H saved many people with literal Meisras Nefesh, among them my grandparents who he hid during the war. We can't thank him enough. He also saved my greay aunt who is now a prominent Rebbetzin in Williamsburg. Mrs. Jackson, thanks a lot for writing a book about him, we look forward to reading it.
2. I was recently in Yad Vashem and there are videos of Frume Yidden speaking about their expereinces and their life. There is also information about Reb Michoel Ber Weismandel who had literal mesiras nefesh and saved many Yidden
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Aug 04, 2009 at 03:06 PM HT Says:Report as Inappropriate
Eli B
he was not a Kopuster eynikel. His zeide was not a Rebbe, the only son of the Tsemach Tzedek not to become a Rebbe. Reb Zalman was a first cousin of the Rebbe's father, Rav Levi Yitzchok zt"l.
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Aug 04, 2009 at 09:49 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ he was the Rebbas first coussin his son reb sholm ber has a shull in flatbush on e.12th st, and sholom ber has 2 sons one yossi and the other mendel, a very nice family, ”
and a daughter chaya
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Aug 04, 2009 at 08:51 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Yad Veshem needs a serious competitor, which will preserve and display all of the Holocaust true evidence, which Yad Vashem will never, ever, tell anyone.
For example, stories of the non-frum world's role in the Holocaust, in Not Helping save lives because the Zionists (during the war) only wanted non-frum Yidden to be "saved" in Israel and all other similar stories which reflect badly on the non-frum and also reflect badly on gentiles such as the USA which was also guilty of the Nazi Murders, because the USA passively ignored what they knew of Yidden being Killed and they refused suggestions to bomb the Train Tracks which led to the concentration camps.
The USA and other "free word", were not always such "Chassidey Umos Haolam", when they all sat quietly (perhaps happily) while Yidden were Killed and did Nothing to stop it, (pretending not to know), not until Germany attacked them too. ”
The USA had/has no obligation to help anyone but her own citizens. What is your reaction to mass killings in Africa or elsewhere in recent times? Do you think it is our obligation to go save them, too?
In WWII the USA was already fighting, and it wouldn't have been that hard to bomb the railways to the concentration camps, but the USA had no OBLIGATION to.
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Aug 04, 2009 at 10:43 PM Harriet Jackson Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ 2 points
1. Rabbi Zalman Schneerson B"H saved many people with literal Meisras Nefesh, among them my grandparents who he hid during the war. We can't thank him enough. He also saved my greay aunt who is now a prominent Rebbetzin in Williamsburg. Mrs. Jackson, thanks a lot for writing a book about him, we look forward to reading it.
2. I was recently in Yad Vashem and there are videos of Frume Yidden speaking about their expereinces and their life. There is also information about Reb Michoel Ber Weismandel who had literal mesiras nefesh and saved many Yidden
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I am eager to speak with you about how Rabbi Zalman Schneerson helped save your grandparents and aunt during the war. Please contact me at harriet.eliana.jackson@gmail.com. The more I know, the better the book will be. Thank you so much, Harriet
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Aug 05, 2009 at 04:30 AM me Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ For those of you who are convinced Yad Vashem is somehow ignoring the frum narrative, you should try actually VISITING sometime. Despite someone's claim that it is a "money maker" it's free for anyone to visit. I went just before Tish B'Av and my guide pointed out MANY places that had important documents from Frum Jews or about Frum Jews. One section had a tish alongside a Rabbi's last Parsha before he was taken to the camps. There are many religious articles present from the times, there are videos with frum Jews talking about their experiances, what else do you want? Yad Vashem is not JUST for frum people so frum people are not all they talk about, but they DO talk about them.
And of course they have no special zone for frum Jews saving Jews (there is no special zone for non-fum Jews either). Jews are expected to take care of each other. They have a section from the non-Jews who saved Jews because most of the non-Jews couldn't have cared less that the shoah was happening in their backyards. ”
It's ironic that much of the information we have about the holocaust was actually filmed and assembled by the Nazi's who wanted to make a museum about an extinct race. Just like the exhibits you speak about at Yad Vashem.
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Aug 07, 2009 at 09:01 PM Sterna Citron Says:Report as Inappropriate
BS"D
The grandchildren of Reb Zalman Schneerson a"h are working on a book about him. If you had connections with him or were saved or helped by him during or after the war, please contact Sterna Citron at citron@speakeasy.net
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Jan 21, 2010 at 01:40 AM frumgirl Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ Can someone telll us more about this Rabbi Schneerson? Was he related to the Rebbe? It seems he survived the war--what did he do afterwards? ”
Rabbi Schneerson is my great grandfather, he was in Paris after the war and then moved to the USA. He has 2 children (a daughter Hadassa Carlebach living in Crown Heights and a son Sholom Ber who lives in Flatbush) and many grandchildren and great- grandchildren BH living all over the world! He also had a yeshiva in Flatbush. Zalman Schneerson and the Lubavitcher Rebbe's father were first cousins.