I. M. Weissenberg Memorial

Abraham Lewin

1941

Eulogy Read at a Commemorative Evening in Honour of Yitshak Meir Weissenberg, 13 September 1941

We live in a prison. We have been degraded to the level of homeless and uncared-for animals. When we look at the swollen, half-naked bodies of Jews lying in the streets, we feel as if we find ourselves at some subhuman level. The half-dead, skeletal…

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Abraham Lewin

1893–1943

Born into a Hasidic family of scholars and rabbis in Warsaw, Abraham Lewin left his Orthodox roots and in 1916 began to teach at the Zionist Yehudia school for girls. When Jewish schools were officially banned by the Nazis in 1939, Lewin and his colleagues continued to teach clandestinely. Inside the Warsaw ghetto, from April 1942 to January 1943, he worked with Emanuel Ringelblum to document the daily lives and suffering of those trapped there.

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I. M. Weissenberg Memorial

Eulogy Read at a Commemorative Evening in Honour of Yitshak Meir Weissenberg, 13 September 1941

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