One of my heroes...

Discussion in 'The Holocaust' started by Kiwiwriter, Aug 17, 2005.

  1. Kiwiwriter

    Kiwiwriter Very Senior Member

    ....is a guy whose name I can't remember. He was the Chief Rabbi of the British 2nd Army, and he went straight into Belsen as soon as it was liberated, toc conduct a service with the freed POWs. Like the American rabbis, Morris Dembowitz and others, who reached Dachau and other camps, he started off saying the "El Mole Rachamim," the mourning prayer for the dead.

    It was a tremendous morale boost to the survivors when American rabbis came into the camps, and said, "Ich bin Ein Amerikaner Rabbiner."
     

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