Historical Footage Satmar Rebbe Reb Yoel Teitelbaum

[malindavanderwal]

amazing footage

[jimmyjoemeeker]

Teitelbaum was rescued from death in the Holocaust during 1944 in Nazi-controlled Transylvania as a result of a deal between a Hungarian Zionist official, Rudolph Kastner, and a deputy of Adolf Eichmann. En route, the train was re-routed by the Germans to Bergen-Belsen, where the 1600 passengers languished for four months while awaiting further negotiations between rescue activists and the Nazi leadership. In the end, the train was released and continued on to Switzerland.

[set972]

im not satmer but from his seforim from the stories from his paniim u can tell he was a tzaddik...show respect 

[nyamcz]

@set972 i m szatmar :)

[extazy17]

Go to Machonshilo (DoT) Org, great shiurim on things you won't hear no place else.

[ichavnairyid]

The Great Rebbe!!

[amixofeverything]

He was a great gaon, but his life cost the lives of thousands of other Jews.

[zaliwins]

@amixofeverything -- Yup i wish he would've cost your life too.

[habbsterr]

@amixofeverything

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SAYING!?!??!!?!?!??!!?!?

[raphoel01]

you mean a great goi

[yudimandel]

One of the builders of Judaism in America. Amazing footage.

[conservativeyogy]

so, this is the rabbi who helped the nazis kill more Jews from Transylvania

[titusharieh]

הכיתה הזו דומה ליהודים..

[succmgmt]

We should thank Hashem that the Satmare Rebbe was saved, but the event that saved him was a great tragedy.

The Satmare Rebbe got out on the "Kastner train." Eichman gave Rudolph Kastner (the head of the Jewish Agency in Budapest) safe passage for two trains, in order to make Kastner look like a hero to the Jews. In exchange, Kastner helped make sure the Hungarian Jews went quietly to Auschwitz.

If the Satmare Rebbe had been aware of this, who knows if he would have even boarded the train?

[TeslinGuy]

Wow, my Grandmother talked about him when I was a Child. Thank You.