In honor of #RoshHashanah5781 I am sharing this shofar (ram’s horn), made in the forced labor camp Skarżysko-Kamienna (belonged to German HASAG concern), in southeastern Poland, during World War II.
c. 25,000-30,000 Jews were brought here and between 18,000-23,000 perished.
Rabbi Yitzhak Finkler, the Grand Rebbe of Radoszyce, asked Moshe Winterter, also an inmate in the camp, to make a shofar for the holy observance of Rosh Hashana in 1943 (5704). In spite of the danger to his own life, Moshe created one.
On Rosh Hashanah morning, they were able to keep the mitzvah of blowing the shofar.
Moshe Winterter (photo) survived the Holocaust. You can see his shofar at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. He managed to keep the shofar with him, but when he was sent to Buchenwald, it was left behind
When Buchenwald was liberated in April 1945, he wanted to find the shofar and he placed ads in newspapers around the world, until one day in 1977, he received a call.
"He formally presented it to Israel’s Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem in memory of Rabbi Yitzhak Finkler, the Grand Rebbe of Radoszyce, who defied the Nazis over
and over again"
The Shofar and the Blessing by Rabbi David Holtz.
tba-ny.org/wp-content/upl…
Detail of a 6th century mosaic pavement from the Synagogue of Beth She’an, with a depiction of The Ark covered by a curtain, a menorah flanked by a shofar, and an incense shovel.
The ancient cry of the Shofar.
blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-ancient-cr…
Photo Skarzysko-Kamienna Jewish ghetto
memoiresdesdeportations.org/fr/lieux-inter…
Read more:
holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation…
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/skarzysko-kami…
yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Micro…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HASAG
Photo of Moshe (Ben-Dov) Winterter (Waintreter).
yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibiti…
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.