The evolution of American orthodox relief and rescue efforts during the Holocaust: two documents.

Journal of Ecumenical Studies | September 22, 2003| | Copyright

The "Emergency Committee for War-Torn Yeshivoth" or the Vaad ha-Hatzala, was established by the Agudat ha-Rabbanim (Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada) in the Fall of 1939 in the wake of the escape to Lithuania of hundreds of rabbis and yeshiva students from the elite Talmudic academies (yeshivot) of Eastern Poland, following its occupation by the Soviets. The Vaad soon emerged as the major relief and rescue organization of Orthodox Jewry in the United States during the Holocaust. The two documents that follow show its evolution from a minor rescue ...

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