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Holocaust Survivor Tells His Story at Beis Shmuel

Men and women from the Crown Heights community participated in an unforgettable evening at Beis Shmuel, featuring a presentation by a man who as a young boy escaped the German angel of death time and time again.

Eighty-year old Leibel Zisman, born 1931 to a prominent family in Kovno, Lithuania, was just a young boy when he lost his parents and two of his siblings to the Nazis.

With great courage and unbending faith, he survived the atrocities of the concentration camps alone, reuniting after the war with his older brother, his only surviving sibling.

At the event, he told the moving account of his ordeal and survival, as well as his subsequent connection with the Frierdiker Rebbe in New York.

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7 Comments

  • chesed

    i wounder if the pepole at the speach know about his chesed.

    he had no issue with giving mendel drizin a loan from the yeshivah money.

    so that mendel was able to fund the condos on crown, which he sold below cost to the comunity. NOT

  • Sam

    He is a great man and Baal chesed

    But what he did with goradetsky against the rebbe needs
    Serious teshuva.

  • Amazing book!

    An amazing speaker! I recommend that you read his book!! Its Amazing!!

  • 40 yr in the hood

    I KNOW HIM FOR MENY YEARS .. BTW DID HE TELL HOW HE GOT HIS BROTHERS TEPHLIN INTO AUSHVITS ? amazeing

  • Yasher Koach

    To Rabbi Noach heber for arranging this, I’m sure you also got new materiel for the kidushim.