Papers for the Refugees
A story ofRav Boruch Yehoshua Yerachmiel Rabinowitzהרב ברוך יהושע ירחמיאל בן נתן דוד רבינוביץProfile ›
While he was in hiding in Budapest, the Rebbe, himself there illegally, took on the care of Polish Jewish refugees who had no status in the city. Every day he raised money for them from the Jewish community.
Through his contacts in the Hungarian government he learned of the committee of Countess Erzsebet Szapary, which provided Christian Polish refugees with identity papers and a monthly allowance. He asked her to extend the same papers to Jews. She told him to come back the next day, and then the decision was made.
The papers listed the Jews as Roman Catholic, and this troubled him from the standpoint of halacha until he concluded that using them was permitted.
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