Auction 22 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters
Rescue Letter by Rabbis of Warsaw – For Rebbe of Bendin – 1938
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Rescue letter, by “Committee of Rabbis of Warsaw Congregation”, to Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik HaLevi Herzog. Warsaw, 1938.
Petition to Rabbi Herzog, who served at the time as Chief Rabbi of Eretz Israel, to do everything in his power for the rescue of Rebbe Rabbi Moshe Yechezkel Rotenberg of Bendin, who was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp in Germany. “A matter which is life threatening to Rabbi Moshe Yechezkel Rotenberg… the torture and suffering which he is enduring since he was confined in Dachau is indescribable…”.
Typewritten, with signatures of geniuses of Warsaw: Rabbi Shlomo David Kahana, Rabbi Chaim Yehoshua Gutschachter [?], Rabbi Ya’akov Zilberstein [?], Rabbi Shimshon Stockhammer [perished in the Holocaust].
The Rebbe Rabbi Moshe Yechezkel Shraga Zundel HaLevi Rotenberg of Bendin (Encyclopedia of Hassidism III, p. 350-351), from dynasty of Apta, son of Rebbe Rabbi Yitzchak Menachem Rotenberg of Bendin (passed away in 1939, for additional information related to him see: Encyclopedia of Hassidism II, p. 431). During the lifetime of his father moved to Berlin where he established a Beit Midrash to which Hassidim of Poland residing in Berlin, congregated. Upon the rise of the Nazi regime he was expelled from Germany and moved to Vienna, after which he was apprehended and imprisoned in Dachau. Perished in the Holocaust.
Official stationery. 29 cm. Good condition. Folding marks, filing holes.
Petition to Rabbi Herzog, who served at the time as Chief Rabbi of Eretz Israel, to do everything in his power for the rescue of Rebbe Rabbi Moshe Yechezkel Rotenberg of Bendin, who was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp in Germany. “A matter which is life threatening to Rabbi Moshe Yechezkel Rotenberg… the torture and suffering which he is enduring since he was confined in Dachau is indescribable…”.
Typewritten, with signatures of geniuses of Warsaw: Rabbi Shlomo David Kahana, Rabbi Chaim Yehoshua Gutschachter [?], Rabbi Ya’akov Zilberstein [?], Rabbi Shimshon Stockhammer [perished in the Holocaust].
The Rebbe Rabbi Moshe Yechezkel Shraga Zundel HaLevi Rotenberg of Bendin (Encyclopedia of Hassidism III, p. 350-351), from dynasty of Apta, son of Rebbe Rabbi Yitzchak Menachem Rotenberg of Bendin (passed away in 1939, for additional information related to him see: Encyclopedia of Hassidism II, p. 431). During the lifetime of his father moved to Berlin where he established a Beit Midrash to which Hassidim of Poland residing in Berlin, congregated. Upon the rise of the Nazi regime he was expelled from Germany and moved to Vienna, after which he was apprehended and imprisoned in Dachau. Perished in the Holocaust.
Official stationery. 29 cm. Good condition. Folding marks, filing holes.
Hassidism – Letters and Manuscripts
Hassidism – Letters and Manuscripts