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LOT 69:
Photograph of the Admor Menachem Mendel of Stropkov. The Admor Menachem Mendel of ...
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Photograph of the Admor Menachem Mendel of Stropkov.
The Admor Menachem Mendel of Stropkov [1885-1954]: The second Admor of Stropkov. He was appointed Admor after his father's passing in the summer of 1940. He survived the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry. At the end of 1944 he hid in a bunker in Pressburg and and promised in writing that all those in the bunker would be saved. He lost his entire family in the Holocaust with the exception of one granddaughter, who established a family after the war. Upon his arrival in the United States, he began to restore the chassidut in a study hall he established in Williamsburg. He was laid to rest in Har HaMenuchot in Jerusalem after his coffin was brought to Israel.
Size: 9x7 cm. Fine condition.
