Holocaust: A letter from the Baal Mofes Rabbi Yechezkel Mordechai Wiesel - 1940

תוכן: מכתב מרגש מיוחד ...

Holocaust: A letter from the Baal Mofes Rabbi Yechezkel Mordechai Wiesel - 1940

תוכן: מכתב מרגש מיוחד במינו מאת סבתה (מרת הייזלער) מעיר קירלאהייז, אודות נכדיה היתומים שדרו בפרעשבורג וכעת הועברו ללונדון הבירה, ומשם העבירום לגור בכפר רחוק מן העיר לדור בין העכו"ם, מבקשת מאוד להשתדל לסייע בעדם ולהוציאם שבל יטמאו בין הגויים ויעלו לארץ ישראל. [ואולי זה קשור ל'קינדר-טרנספורט' שהעבירום ללונדון ומשם לכפרי אנגליה שהפסיק עם תחילת השואה, אך בשנת 1940 אורגן משלוח ילדים נוסף ואחרון].

הפועל הישועות מפאליאן הוסיף מס' שורות בכתב ידו לסייע בעדם. [[עם חותמתו בלועזית!].

R’ Yechezkel Mordechai Wiesel, a direct descendant of R’ David ben Shmuel Halevi (Poland, 1586-1667; author of Turei Zahav), was briefly known in the years preceding the Holocaust as the “Second Ba’al Shem Tov.” [The Ba’al Shem Tov was R’ Yisrael ben Eliezer (1698-1760), the founder of the chassidic movement.] Overnight, R’ Wiesel went from being an obscure shochet in the tiny Hungarian village of Polyen-Kobletsky (today in Ukraine) to being recognized as a chassidic rebbe and miracle worker. Reportedly, tens of thousands of Jews, as well as a large number of non-Jews, came to him for blessings, and many wondrous tales were told about him. Numerous people were helped by his blessings, whether they suffered from physical ailments or other concerns. R’ Wiesel was particularly known as a master of the mitzvah of tzedakah. Virtually every penny that was given to him by his thousands of visitors was distributed to the poor, while R’ Wiesel himself lived the life of a pauper. Just as suddenly as he had become known as a miracle worker, he suddenly stopped performing miracles and visitors stopped arriving. His final years, before the Holocaust, were spent traveling throughout Europe, and he was known to have visited Frankfort, Germany. R’ Wiesel was killed in the Holocaust in Szolles, Hungary in 1944. (Sources: Encyclopedia La’chassidut; Sefer Marmarosh