דער קערפער פֿון השם"I acquired a document this week that does not merely whisper history; it indicts it. It is an original letter from #Rav #ElchononWasserman, Hy”d, addressed to a supporter in Berlin in 1933. The date alone chills the blood: the 9th of Shevat, a mere six days after #AdolfHitler was appointed chancellor of #Germany. Long before the world would claim it “didn’t know.”
The letter details the sudden collapse of financial support for the #Baranovich #Yeshiva. Benefactors had vanished. Funds had evaporated. The lifelines sustaining hundreds of #talmidim had been severed almost overnight. Rav #Elchonon records, with devastating simplicity, that even bread had become scarce."
Rav Elchonon’s 1933 Letter Foretells the Horrors and Pain For European Jewry
Contrary to the comforting fiction often repeated, Hitler’s rise did not require years to become economically catastrophic for German Jewry. While January 30, 1933 did not immediately bring formal l