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| Stropkover Rebbe |
Rebbitzin Chayeh Halberstam, widow of Rav Avraham Halberstam, Stropkover Rebbe, was deported from Kashau to Auschwitz May 1944.
A SonderKommando who got killed himself recorded the Rebbittzin's last words.
״I see the end of Hungarian Jewry. The government had permitted large sections of the Jewish community to flee. The people asked the advice of the admorim and they always reassured them. The Belzer Rebbe said that Hungary would only endure anxiety.. And now the bitter hour has come, when the Jews can no longer save themselves. Indeed, heaven concealed [this fate] from them, but they, themselves, fled at the last moment to the land of Israel. They saved their own lives but left the people as sheep for slaughter. רבונו של עולם ! In the last moments of my life I set my plea before You. That You pardon them for this great חילול השם!״"
From the book "Rabbinic Authority and a Personal Autonomy" edited by Moshe Sokol
