Auction 44
Lot 255:
Postcard with a handwritten and signed note from Rabbi Yehezke Fish to emigrants from Otesolka who immigrated to the US. He writes to them asking for help saving his two sons: “My son Eliezer who has become ill…and the doctors say that it is a chronic illness, may Hashem save him with a refuah shlema” (his son indeed recovered and became the Admor of Matesolke in Williamsburg and died at an old age in 2001). “His little brother…to carry out the mitzvah of pidyon shvu’im.” He ends with blessings that in the merit of their help they will have a Redemption.”
Sent just before the outbreak of the Shoah, in which the opening bells could already be heard in countries such as Hungary. The rabbi hints at the problems which led to the awful Shoah. He writes that he sent the postcard a second time, since the first time it was in an envelope and did not reach its destination because of the censor. Clear, cramped handwriting. 115.5×10.5cm, light creases, very good condition.
Rabbi Yehezke Fish of Matesolke (1885-1944) was the son of the Admor Rabbi Aharon Yeshayahu Fish of Hodos, author of Perach Mateh Aharon, and was a gadol of kabbalism. In 1928 he was appointed his father’s successor, and he established an important yeshiva there. In 1944 he was sent with his community to Auschwitz, and he strengthened their resolve the whole way. According to survivors he said viduy with great excitement before entering the gas chambers. Hy”d.
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