The Story of the Friediker Rebbe's Rescue from the Nazis (Rabbis on the Run Series)

Part of the Rabbis on the Run Series at BRS. Booklet: https://tinyurl.com/RebbeontheRun. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880-1950), the sixth rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, was one of the most remarkable Jewish personalities of the twentieth century. In his seventy years, he encountered every conceivable challenge to Jewish life: the persecutions and pogroms of Czarist Russia, Communism's war on Judaism, and melting-pot America's apathy and scorn toward the Torah and its precepts. The Rebbe was unique in that he not only experienced these chapters in Jewish history — as did many of his generation — but that, as a leader of his people, he actually faced them down, often single-handedly, and prevailed. 00:00 - Introduction 2:50 - Recommended Reading 5:21 - Early Years of the 6th Rebbe 8:52 - The Committee of Rabbis 11:02 - The Seventh Rebbe on His Father-in-Law 13:20 - The Relocation of Chabad to St. Petersburg 16:40 - Spies in His Midst 19:24 - Success in Time 21:50 - The Arrest of the 6th Rebbe 24:59 - The Release of the Rebbe 26:09 - Visiting the USA 28:52 - Leaving Russia 32:44 - Diagnosis With MS 33:35 - Leaving Warsaw 39:57 - Bomb Strikes the Rebbe's House 42:50 - Lubavitchers in the USA Lobby Roosevelt 45:30 - Ernst Bloch: Half-Jewish German Soldier 51:09 - Rebbe Won't Leave Without His Books 56:35 - Rebbe Arrives in New York 1:01:22 - Fate of the Rescuers