Glimpses of life in Budapest post WWII

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שלוחי אדונינו - אור לגויים

Young shliach Mendel Hurwitz speaks about growing up Jewish. The fact that this light unto the nations is emanating from Hungary, and is the product of the hard work of a Chossid מיוצאי אונגארן, only adds to the nachas. At least for me. We wish the Hurwitzes much continued nachas from Mendel און אלע אנדערע קינדער. On a technical note, if you're using the IE browser and are prompted to either see all or only secure content, click "show all content." That will bring the videos to your screen. With Google Chrome it does not seem to appear, hence the need for the links.



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ZSIDÓ HÍREK BUDAPEST

The "enlightened" ones like to point to the Bilgorajer Rov's parting droshoh in 1944 as proof that the Tzaddikim at that time had no idea what was coming. Even as late as Spring 1944. That the secular take issue with that is a given. Even the Belzers have a problem with it... See what the Lubavitcher Rav Oberlander says about that speech in the caption.

אשרי חלקו.

They had threatening Tznius posters in pre-War Hungary too!

  come to shul with short sleeves - or revealing clothing - and lose your seat and no refund on your dues!

סיפורו של המנהיג הניאו נאצי שחזר בתשובה - בזכות שלוחי כ"ק אדמו"ר זי"ע

שומו שמים! כ"ק רבינו ה"ברך משה" זצ"ל גיט שלום פאר דער הויפט נעאלאגישער ראבינער אלעקסאנדער שייבער!

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   זה באמת חוצפה גדולה ועצומה, הרי בן האדם הזה היה מחלל שבת בפרהסיא. ולדוגמא כל ליל שבת (בטעמפל של הראבינער סעמינאר) אחרי קידוש גדול לכל הציבור, כשהיה רואה יהודים יורדים מקומה הג' במדריגות, היה מכריז בקול: הרי יש כאן מעלית! ועוד כיוצא בזה סיפורים. ובא מי שקורא לעצמו הסאטמאר רב [תסתכל בתאריך ליד התמונה!] ונותן לו יד בידידות!!!!!

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...ווי נעמט מען די פעסטע גאסן

Oy, the נסיונות of 1912 Budapest! One can only imagine... But the truth is that velt has been velt ever since time began. Budapest was a very European city, it being part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and quite modern for its times. And for a bochur'l from a non-Chassidic background who was searching for the truth... G-d only knows how difficult it was! Yet we see that for some reason Reb Arele yearned for those days! Almost like Rebbe Nachman he wanted those nisyonos so he could overcome them and reach much greater heights thereafter.

 

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ג-ט צו דאנקען איז דא ליובאוויטשער חסידים וואס האבען נעבאך נישט בעסער וואס צו טוהן נאר האלטען רעסטאראנען פאר טוריסטען אין ווייטע מדינות. שמועה שמעתי אז די חרד'ישע רב הרב ר' משה טובי' ווייסבערגער שליט"א האט איבערגעלאזט בודאפעסט און איז אהיימגעפארען קיין ארצנו הקדושה, לאננדיג צוויי רעסטאראנען אהן איבערזיכט, אזוי אז הרב אבערלאנדער שליט"א האט קיין ברירה נישט געהאט און האט געדארפט געבן די השגחות. היות אז קיין בודאפעסט פארען יעדעס יאר הונדערטע חרד'ישע אידן קיין קברי אבות , צו די בעדער וכיו"ב, איז, זענען די רעסטאראנען זייער נייטיג. פארשטייט זיך אז נישט נאר די רעסטאראנען בלייבען אהן איבערזיכט יעצט... אויפ'ן היימישען שפראך וואלט מען געזאגט אז "דער רבי האט געהאט א ווייטע קוק" ווען ער האט אהינגעשיקט הרה"ג מורינו ר' ברוך אבערלאנדער שליט"א אז ער זאל אכטונג געווען אויף אידישקייט אין בודאפעסט און אין גאנץ ארץ הגר. דארט האט רב"א מייסד געווען א בי"ד וועלכע איז פאראנטווארטליך אויף אלע רבנישע אנגעלעגנהייטען

איין זאך ווייס איך נאך נישט, צו דער אנאנס וועגן צומת הגידין איז א מקרה צו מ'האט עס בכוונה אריינגעשטעלט, וד"ל

אפשר פאר דעם האט מען א נאמען געגעבן דעם ספר "התעוררות תשובה" ווייל ער האט מעורר געווען אידן לתשובה

The holy Erlauer Rav, son of the Ksav Sofer, who was killed at Auschwitz at the age of 94, sent a shliach to the Neology Rabbi in Budapest to speak about Shmiras Shabbos. Had he not been the z'kan hoRabbonim and a grandson of the holy Chasam Sofer - and had it been in the age of the internet - it would've gotten him into a whole lot of trouble with the more zealous factions of Hungarian Jewry, who forbade any contact with the Neologues. This kind of reminds of me of what the holy Lubavitcher Rebbe would do years later, realize that unaffiliated Jews are still Jews, even if they were ostracized, and as such need to keep the Torah and Mitzvos. And if they don't they need to be told about it.

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Pictured: Shoproner Rov - Reb Shimon Yisroel Posen (r, with Rabbinic, flat Beaver Hat) & and (hidden) Rav Yisroel וועלץ (l) ראב"ד דקה"י בודאפעסט, and later in Yerushalayim. Center, with uniform - Rabbi Shenkelevsky from the Joint; Standing First on the left - Reb Shemtov Meyer - Mechutin to the Tosher Rebbe, father of the Lizhensker Rebbe of Monsey.. The Two young men Standing in the center wearing caps are children of the Shoproner Rov. We need to identify the man with the Platchiker Biber hat next to Rav Woltz.

 Seated right is the Shoproner Rov, left is Rav Yisroel Woltz of Budapest, zt"l. Child standing First to the left - Reb Avraham Chaim Spitzer. Seated second to the left is Reb Avraham Steinmetz, Sitting 2nd from the right is Reb Asher Zelig Steinmetz. Man sitting First left is also seen in the First picture, albeit without his hat. If you see other people in the picture that you can name, please do so in the comments. I should put a watermark on these never-before-seen pictures, but who has time? and why should I keep them from stealing it? let them enjoy.

What I just read - and you must too!!

I picked up the book - not sure why - and could not put it down. From the cover you figure that it's a novel - a fictional one - so why bother? Maybe it was recommended by someone else in the house who had read it, I cannot remember now. But from the beginning this book is a tear-jerker, I tell ya. From the moment you pick it up you're engrossed in the story, in the tragedy that was the life of this girl, her mother and her family. There is one surprising aspect to the book, and that is that names are used - real names - when it comes to very delicate situations, which surprised me. In short, the story is like this: A young woman loses her husband. Her three children leave their "backwards" city in Transcarpathia/Marmures and leave their Yiddishkeit behind as well. She remarries, but her husband is drafted and gets TB while in the army. He dies and leaves her with a 6-month old child, but not before he makes her promise that she'll never abandon her child. Ever. The poor woman gets a job picking grapes in Hungary - menial labor, to say the least - for a Yiddishe Frau.

While working she gets a splinter, and ignores it. Soon enough the pain is too much to bear and she needs to be rushed to a Hospital in Budapest, Selish/ Nagyszollos/Sevlus doesn't have what it takes to do the job. Before she knows it her arm is (oyf kayn shum Yid gedacht) amputated in a very crude way, and she's almost helpless. Relatives of her husband convince her to leave the child with her so that she can recuperate without the child being a burden for her. And if it's at all possible - there starts her real trouble. Read all about the bravery, persistence, trust and strength of a woman on a mission to retrieve her child, as well as the child's amazing story of survival during WW2, when she manages to elude the Nazi murderers at the last moment and live out the war in hiding - in a very unusual way. The memoirs were only published posthumously for that reason. I'll let you guys in on a little secret: I cried often in this book. You cry for the mother, for the young heroine, and for the those that were rounded up and gassed, HY"D. And maybe most of all, you cry when she gets to the Holy Land after ww2 and meets up with family that was lucky enough to get out before it all was destroyed. I'd tell you more, but then you wouldn't read it on your own... Get this book!

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