Rabbi Yossi Brackman conducted the funeral for Jakob Messer, a child survivor of the Holocaust.
How Strangers Gave a Holocaust Survivor a Jewish Funeral
Living on the rough-and-tumble South Side of Chicago, it had been decades since Jakob, a child of a Holocaust survivor, had been in contact with organized Jewish community life, which is mostly concentrated in the city’s northern sections. By now in his 80s, his health had taken a turn for the worse, and it appeared that his life was coming to an end.
