Shortly after midnight of the 15th of Sivan of 1927, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880-1950), was arrested by agents of the GPU (Soviet Secret Police) and Yevsketzia (“Jewish section” of the Communist Party).
His crime was leading the underground network of rabbis, teachers and emissaries working to preserve and disseminate Jewish learning and observance throughout the Soviet Empire.
Upon his father’s passing in 1920 Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak assumed the leadership of Russian Jewry just as Communism’s all-out war on Jewish life was moving into high gear.
His fight to preserve Judaism was characterized by his all-consuming mesirat nefesh – an unequivocally selfless devotion to the physical and spiritual needs of a fellow Jew and unshakable faith in what he stood for.
He dispatched teachers and rabbis to the farthest reaches of the Soviet Empire, establishing a vast underground network of schools, mikvaos, and lifelines of material and spiritual support.
Stalin’s henchmen did everything in their power to stop him. In 1927 he was arrested, beaten, sentenced to death and exiled; but he stood his ground, and by force of international pressure he was finally allowed to leave the country.
But in leaving the boundaries of the Soviet Union he left his emissaries and their infrastructure of Jewish life behind; these continued to function and thrive, preserving and even spreading the teachings of Torah and chassidism to this very day.
When the all-powerful communist regime began to crumble in the closing years of the ’80s, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak’s network of children’s schools, outreach centers, and supply lines of kosher food and religious services simply moved out of cellars and attics into emptied Communist Party buildings.
Read the Rebbe’s prison diary – HERE
A video by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Kaminetzky:
It is amazing how the events come alive once you hear the narration and watch the video at the same time , i hope you make a continuation
is that it?
all it is ,,is repeat video shots of the same metal stairs, is there any more footage that that???
it is different stais and walls and it is because if u watched it then u will no that it is still in use and you are not allowed to video real life prisoners.
so intresting
they weren’t able to get a lot of footage it’s a prison
(unless you want the prisoners escaping)
No they never used them
this is what it looks like now in 2009
back then there where no first aid kits
and that cell with a bed and sink was not where the Friediker Rebbe stayed.
Nice Preview of the movie 🙂
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Yes, it’s true, with all the sound effects when they open the door, etc.
aino domeh reiya lishmia, you can feel the friedeker rebbes experience so much more after viewing this video. MOSHIACH NOW!!!
why did they allow the filming?
amazing.
called
“JOURNEY INTO THE HISTORY OF CHABAD”
there is more!!
very well done i assume that this is only clips of a longer video
To comment 7 they did use the first aid kits the prisoners would be able to request a doctor and he would come within a few days. [i think the Dr’s used the kits] i recommend everyone read the ‘Heroic struggle’.
Truly amazing!
When do we get to see more?
PS just out of curiosity why do they have first aid kits hanging? do you think they are ever used
how come its over so fast?!! it leaves you hanging there
its amazing. thank you!!!
brilliant vidoe, the story comes alive!!!!!!, is there a continuation??
now i realize how much the rebbe suffered…..
all it is ,,is repeat video shots of the same metal stairs, is there any more footage that that???
alot of messerois nefesh
but why dosent it have happy ending?