Leilão Bidspirit | Pre-Holocaust Letter from America from

Pre-Holocaust Letter from America from Rebbetzin Yocheved, Widow of Rebbe Yosef Baruch of Chentchin - Touching letter from Rebbetzin Yocheved Horowitz, wife of the rebbe Rabbi Yosef Baruch HaLevi Horowitz, av beit din  of Chentchin, author of Hagahot Yosef Berachah  on Rebi Yehudah HeChassid's last will and testament [son of the elder Admo”r of Poland, the rebbi Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel of Chentchin-Elkush]. Chentchin, Monday of the week Parashat  Behar is read [Iyyar], 1939. Yiddish. This letter was sent just a few months before the outbreak of the Holocaust, within the year of mourning for her husband, the rabbi of Chetchin, who passed away during the typhus plague, predeceasing his father, the rebbe of Chentchin-Elkush, who in his own lifetime appointed his son as rabbi of Chentchin. The widow, who was left alone with young children at home, begs the Ezrat Torah association in America to support her. However, she does not ask for material help for her children, but for her two teenage boys who must travel to study at yeshivah. Given that it was her husband's - the rabbi's - entire desire that his sons grow in Torah, she pleads that they help her send her sons to the yeshivahs. Four months later, in Elul 1939, Nazi German forces invaded Poland, triggering WWII. The Rebbetzin and her children, along with the majority of European Jewry, were martyred in Hashem's Name. Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the Rebbetzin of Chentchin, Mrs. Yocheved Horowitz , and  her husband, the rebbi Rabbi Yosef Baruch HaLevi of Chentchin . [1] postal postcard, written on both sides. Official stationery of the Rebbe of Chentchin. Fine-very fine condition. Slight ink smudge.