Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Update re: unidentified Chossid with Reb Uriel Zimmer

According to his son Mendel, the man pictured with Reb Uriel Zimmer is his father, Rabbi Dr. Doniel Meyers, o"h, then a young man of some 22 years. He was a son of a respected Ashkenezisher family, a survivor of Thereisenstadt at a VERY young age, and later a talmid of the Lubavitcher Yeshivos in Eretz Yisroel and 770. Also a Shliach of the Rebbe in Holland for many years, and of late in Yerushalayim. The Rebbe contacted Rabbi Meyers to greet Rabbi Zimmer at the airport and to have it covered by the media - hence the pictures of his arrival. RUZ passed away some months later, in the fall of 1961. Here's an article from after his passing. Interestingly enough there's no mention of his relationship with Reb Uriel Zimmer in that article... 


5 comments:

shmulik, squirrel hill said...

your post started with Reb Uriel, jumped to the Dr Doniel, almost surreal. what's the matter took a liking to the gabai more than to the rebbe?

Pinchos Woolstone said...

Please explain Shmuel

shmulik, squirrel hill said...

I have a headache.

Moe said...

He looks WAY more then a 20 year old bochur this must be mistaken identity.

Reb Hersh said...

' Interestingly enough there's no mention of his relationship with Reb Uriel Zimmer in that article...'

Why would you think that there was a relationship with him ?
Because he was instructed to greet and chaperon him during his visit and he did ?