On December 7, 1944, the train carrying Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, founder of the Satmar Hasidic dynasty, departed Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on the so-called Kastner Train. The train, carrying some 1370 Jews, took them to Switzerland and safety – unlike most of Teitelbaum's followers in Hungary, who died in the Holocaust.
This day in Jewish history / Satmar Hasidism founder is saved
On December 7, 1944, the train carrying Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, founder of the Satmar Hasidic dynasty, departed Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on the so-called Kastner Train.
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