New State Department Letters Unearthed Surrounding Frierdiker Rebbe and Family’s Situation in 1940
Courtesy of The Dalfin Archives
In the government archives there are letters addressed to a U.S. State Department official named Robert T. Pell on the subject of visas for “Chabad hierarchy.”
The first letter is dated January 5, 1940 by a Washington, D.C. attorney named Max Rhoade, concerning “the Chabad religious library at Otwock” and the “unsolved problem of evacuating Rabbi Mendel Horenstejn of the Chabad hierarchy and his family.”
This gives us an idea of the behind the scenes situation of the FR escape, his family stuck in Warsaw, and the Rebbe & Rebbetzin in Paris.
More to come….
leibel altein
i believe these letter areprinted already in the book “Out of the Inferno” which documents the efforts of saving The Rebbe and bringing him and failyto usa-authored by my mother Rebbetzin Rochel Altein a”h based on documents in my zaides z”l archives who merited to play major role in these effortsdue to his capacity of director ofAguch