From Lublin to Shanghai [Hardcover]

From Lublin to Shanghai: The miraculous exile of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin by David A. Mandelbaum and Yechiel Benzion Fishoff Product Description To survive the impossible - and to bring a blazing light into the deepest darkness ... The German army had successfully invaded Poland. Now, just a few days after the Nazi victory, a young yeshivah student silently handed the keys of the beautiful Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin building - built with so much toil and devotion by Rav Meir Shapiro - to the Gestapo. And thus began the riveting journey of a group of young yeshivah students, a journey that would take them through thousands of miles - and almost endless miracles of survival. In these pages we meet an incredible group of young men, bitterly missing their homes and families and clinging to the only truth in a world gone mad: Torah learning. With many primary sources and rare and dramatic photographs, From Lublin to Shanghai is an important addition to Holocaust-era scholarship. And with its deeply moving account of mesirus nefesh for Torah, it is also a book that will inspire and elevate us. ISBN-10: 1422613127 ISBN-13: 9781422613122 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 314 Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches Published: September 2012