Yehoshua Neuwirth (M / Germany, 1927-2013), Holocaust survivor

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Yehoshua Neuwirth (M / Germany, 1927-2013), Holocaust survivor

Biography

Yehoshua Yeshaya Neuwirth was born February 15, 1927 in Berlin, Germany. His father Aharon served as rabbi in a number of German communities. After Kristallnacht, he travelled to Belgium on the Kindertransport (children's convoy) but was rejoined by his parents in 1939. They settled in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. During the Second World War, the family lived in hiding, supported by the Resistance. In 1946 he immigrated illegally to Palestine. He became an eminent Orthodox Jewish rabbi and posek (halakhic authority) in Jerusalem.

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