Auction 8
Rabbinic literature and rare and special letters
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Apr 11, 2021
Chana Senesh 24, Bnay Barak, Israel
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LOT 86:
Wellsprings of Torah. A letter from the valley of death. A historic and spine-chilling document.
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Wellsprings of Torah. A letter from the valley of death. A historic and spine-chilling document.
A letter sent by Rabbi Alexander Zusia Friedman from the Warsaw ghetto, thanking the addressee for the aid packages sent to the ghetto residents. He describes in brief the shortages and asks for assistance in obtaining matzot for Pesach.
The Gaon Rabbi Alexander Zusia Friedman, the secretary general of Agudath Israel in Poland, was a central figure in Haredi Jewry, not only due to his official position, but in his own right, thanks to his talents, special character, activities and achievements…
Rabbi Alexander Zusia was born in Sochatchov, Poland, on 11 Av, 1895. He was renowned as a multi-talented genius who, even as a youth, dedicated himself for the benefit of the community.
Even in the ghetto, under the cruel gaze of the Nazis, and at the risk of endangering his life, he founded and operated the Yesodei Hatorah network of Talmudei Torah for boys and a Beit Yaakov for girls.
He was murdered by the Nazis on 5 Cheshvan 1943 in the Trawniki concentration camp near Lublin.
This letter could well be the last letter sent by Rabbi Alexander Zusia. Even if not, it is a chilling document that is the voice of Warsaw Jewry, a moment before its destruction.
