מכירה 23
פריט 161:
Two invitations to weddings of “daughters” of the Admor Rabbi Eliezer Zusya Partogal, in 1947-8, when he lived in Bucharest, Romania after the Shoah. The Admor gathered hundreds of orphans after the war and raised them with the rabbanit as their own children. There was a saying that he had “three hundred children of his own and one adopted child…” His only son, Admor Rabbi Yisrael Avraham, the second rabbi of Skolen, has also since passed away. In the invitations, the Admor and his wife are signed on the bride’s side, for Sheindel Zisser and Gittel Partogal (some of the children registered as their own children). Rabbi Eliezer Zusya Portogal (1897-1982) was the first Admor of Skolen, founder of the Chesed L’Avraham charitable organization for orphans, worked to free Jews from Communist prisons, and to rehabilitate Shoah survivors in Romania. He worked until he and his son were arrested twice for their activities, after which he moved to the United States in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, founding a synagogue and continuing to work to save Jews. He is buried in the Chassidic cemetery of Monsey, NY.
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