The sixth Rebbe—Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory (left)—with Mordechai Dubin, right.
Bio of Chassid who Saved 1000’s, now in English
Sixty-one years ago—on the 20th of Elul, corresponding to Sept. 16, 1957—a former Jewish member of independent Latvia’s parliament, the Saeima, passed away in anonymity while imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital in the Soviet Union. His name was Mordechai Dubin, and he had once been a leading figure in pre-war Europe who famously used his considerable political influence for the benefit of Jews in need of assistance.
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