The Rabbi Saved by Hitler's Soldiers: Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn and His Astonishing Rescue

by Bryan Mark Rigg

Book Overview

"Were this story a novel, it would have the character of an implausible fable, but as often occurred in the Holocaust, reality exceeds the imagination."--Michael Berenbaum, from the Foreword When Hitler invaded Warsaw in the fall of 1939, hundreds of thousands of civilians were trapped in the besieged city. The Rebbe Joseph Schneersohn, the leader of the ultra-orthodox Lubavitcher Jews, was among them. When word of his plight went out, a group of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700622624
• ISBN13: 9780700622627
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 510 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"