The Rabbi of Buchenwald: The Life and Times of Herschel Schacter

The life of Rabbi Herschel Schacter constitutes a roadmap through American Jewish history during the last seven decades of the 20th century: the Holocaust, Soviet Jewry, Israel, and Orthodoxy in America. There is much about his life that is both fascinating and revealing. Nothing can compare, however, to the day, when he, a 27 year old recently minted rabbi, walked into a barracks at Buchenwald and announced to the inmates, who looked more like cadavers than humans, Yidden, ihr zent frei! Jews, you are free! For that moment alone and all that he accomplished to help bring those survivors back to life, his story would be worthy of a biography. But that was just the beginning of his multitude of accomplishments. A riveting read.” Author Rafael Medoff