By Collive reporter
Author Dovid Zaklikowski will be giving a talk at the Central Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza on Shanghai and the Chabad students who were there during the Holocaust.
“Leaving a small town in Poland,” the library said in a statement, “Rabbi Chaim Meir Bukiet left behind his entire life and began a journey that took him through Lithuania, the Soviet Union, Japan, China and ultimately to the United States.
In this talk, Zaklikowski will examine the correspondence with his great-grandparents who were murdered by the Nazis and its deep effect on his grandfather’s life.”
Over the past two decades, Zaklikowski has written extensively about four of those who spent time in Asia during WWII: Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Raichik (in Shadar), Rabbi Mendel Tenenbaum, Dr. Abba Seligson and Rabbi Leib Kramer (in a forthcoming book).
“For many years I have been collecting documents, photos and artifacts for a book on my grandfather Rabbi Chaim Meir Bukiet,” Zaklikowski said, “Here, I will present for the first present this never seen collection.”
At the talk, the writer will also hear the amazing story of how the Swedish Red Cross kept in their archives correspondence of Rabbi Bukiet in Shanghai.
Many of Dovid Zaklikowski’s books are available on HasidicArchives.com or on Amazon Prime.
Time: Sun, Nov 24th, 2019 at 2:00 pm
Location: Central Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza, on the first floor, in the Info Commons Lab.
