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RABBI SOLOMON SCHONFELD
RABBI SOLOMON SCHONFELD
BY: BELLE JAPS
How he started
Rabbi was born in 1912. He lived in an Orthodox Jewish community in north London.
But in 1933, when the Nazis took power he knew he needed to help.
Bibliography
What was the Holocaust?
https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-holocaust
http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/holocaustfacts.htm
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The elderly and scholars were not being protected. So Rabbi went to the Home Office and wrote visas for 500 rabbis and synagogue and their family's. He saved about 1,300 people, but did not stop there
The Holocaust killed 11 million people, and was lead by Adolf Hitler. This genocide killed 6 million people of Jewish religion and about 5 million were either Christians helping Jews or anyone Gypsies and handicapped. It lasted 6 and a half years beginning in 1933 and ending in 1945.
After the war (1946) Rabbi traveled the concentration camps. He made himself fake military uniforms and risk of being shot to help set up fledgling communities after the war.
Holocaust Hero:
Solomon Schonfeld
By David Kranzler
Years later author Derek Taylor wrote a book on Rabbis Schonfeld and said “If he needed to do something to save life, he would stretch the rules as far as necessary.”