On Sunday afternoon, the Satmar Rebbe held his annual “Chuf Alef Kislev” event, attended by thousands upon thousands of Satmar Chassidim. The event was held at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn.
Chof Alef Kislev is the day Hagon HaRav Yoel Teitelbaum ZATZAL, the founder of Satmar Chassidus in America, escaped from the Nazis during the Holocaust in 1944, with the help of a Zionist!
The Satmar Rebbe, known as the Divrei Yoel, was among 1600-plus people who were transported out of Hungary by train thanks to the efforts of Rudolf Kastner, one of the Zionist leaders of Budapest’s Vaadat Ezra V’Hatzalah, who brokered a deal with Adolph Eichmann to let the passengers leave in exchange for a large sum of money, diamonds and gold.
While Eichmann reneged on the deal and had the train sent to Bergen Belsen, the train was finally released after four months of negotiations and the passengers finally obtained their freedom when they arrived in Switzerland.
Many dignitaries and elected officials have attended Chof Alef Kislev events over the years out of respect for the Rebbe and to show their support for chasidim and other frum communities.
5 comments:
When are you making a Chof Alef Kislev celebration in Beis Shemesh?
At 0:24 isn't that another fake Jewish Democrat standing right behind him? With a hat and clapping. They probably came together. That other one has to be exposed.
From what I've read, the way Satmar tells the story, the success of the operation was only due to the Satmar being on the train and God wanting to save him. So really, Satmar gets the credit, not the Zionists!
Satmar has a long history of re-writing history. In truth "Dr" Kastner wasn't a zionist, nor a doctor either. He was an opportunist. He was a well connected journalist, when the Germans took over Germany, Kastner put together the whole deal, and not for free either. He conveniently latched on to the zionist party as a means of organizing support and funding.
Your comment is irrelevant, at the end of the day, over 1,700 Jews were saved through the Zionist apparatus. Kastner, whether an "opportunist" or not saved over 100,000 Jews, read the book "Rezso Kasztner" by Ladislaus Lob who was on the train and knew the Kastner family very well. The book has every fact documented! The book was not written to praise Kasztner but simply to state the facts!
A Jew that gets saved doesn't give a crap if an "opportunist" or a fake "Dr" saved him!
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