From Days Gone By: Tomchei Temimim in Japan
Students of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Otwock, fleeing the Nazis after the invasion of Poland in WWII, arrive in Kobe, Japan. They would later make their way to Shanghai, China and remain there for the duration of the war.
Can you identify those in the photo?
amazing photo
WoW amazing !
I heard this picture exists but never got to see it. Walking second in line is my Zeida harav Avrohom Tzvi Landa Shyichye
3rd
3rd is Harav Chaim Meir A”H Bukiet
Yisroel Dovid
First IN LINE LOOKING DOWN IS RABBI AVROHOM GARFINKEL OBM. LONG TIME REBBE IN LUBAVITCHER YESHIVA.
THIRD IN LINE IS RABBI CHAIM MAYER BUKIT OBM LONG TIME REBBE IN LUBAVITCHER YESHIVA.
Anonymous
The picture is in Shanghai already. If you look closely you can see Chinese writing on the buildings.
Can be Japanese.
You can tell the difference?
Milhouse
It’s actually not that hard to tell them apart, but the picture is blurry, and there isn’t much writing in it. Based on the little I can see I think it’s more likely to be Chinese than Japanese, but I’m not at all sure of it.
Interesting
I found this pix in a book about the Mir Yeshiva called “The Shanghai connection”. Under the pix, it just describes the Rabbis as bochurim arriving in Kobe, Japan.
Not rabbi bukiet
just for the record that is not Rabbi Bukiet and the picture is in Japan.
wow
Compare this to what bocherim carry these days to yeshiva or camp for a month!
Nechama 18
My grandmother had cousins that escaped Poland and went to Japan from the Mir Yeshiva. Are these the students?
Milhouse
No, these bochurim are from Tomchei Temimim, not from the Mir.
suggestion
do you know what japanese writing looks like?