BROOKLYN, NY [CHI} — As it is well known, the My Encounter with the Rebbe research team has been working tirelessly to learn about the Rebbe and Rebbetzin’s years in Europe for the Early Years Series. They have interviewed people who remembered the Rebbe and Rebbetzin from back then.
JEM Discovers New Documents on the Rebbe’s Arrival in the US!
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI} — As it is well known, the My Encounter with the Rebbe research team has been working tirelessly to learn about the Rebbe and Rebbetzin’s years in Europe for the Early Years Series. They have interviewed people who remembered the Rebbe and Rebbetzin from back then.
While doing research for The Early Years, Volume IV they were trying to figure out how the Rebbe and Rebbetzin actually received their visas to come to America. When going through a telegram, (provided by the Library of Agudas Chasidei Chabad) from the Previous Rebbe to the Rebbe, they noticed that one of them said “HIAS” on it. They decided to research it and it took them to the HIAS headquarters in New York where they discovered over thirty documents on the Rebbe and Rebbetzin’s flight out of war-torn Europe.
Valery Bazarov, the director of HIAS’s historical department, was interviewed for The Early Years, Volume IV. Thanks to HIAS, the Rebbe and Rebbetzin ended up getting the priceless US visas and tickets out of war-torn Europe.
The DVD, which will be released in the coming weeks, is 75 minutes long, plus 15 minutes of bonus footage, and can be ordered here.
