Deported to Kamenetz-Podolsk

In the summer of 1941 the Hungarian authorities rounded up Jews who could not quickly prove Hungarian citizenship and sent them over the Soviet border to Kamenetz-Podolsk. More than eighteen thousand of them were murdered within two days.

The Rebbe and his son Tzvi Natan David were deported as Polish citizens. He remained for a few weeks near Jagielnica and then went on to Kolomyja, where he learned what had happened to those who were sent to Kamenetz-Podolsk. He sent word to his family and was smuggled back into Munkacs. Because of suspicion in the city he had to leave for Budapest, where he lived in hiding for about a year and a half.