“Unlikely Allies: The Shocking Nazi Mission to Rescue a Jewish Leader that Shook History”
Today, Chabad-Lubavitch is among the largest Hasidic movements in the world, boasting nearly 100,000 adherents worldwide and performing humanitarian and religious outreach work in dozens of countries. The survival and thriving of the movement and its dynasty of spiritual leaders owes much to the miraculous rescue of Rebbe Yosef Schneerson from the jaws of the Third Reich – an unlikely mission which remains one of the most obscure and surprising chapters of the Second World War and illustrates the often baffling contradictions that lie at the intersection of ideology, faith, and international diplomacy.
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About Chabad-Lubavitch, Chabad.org, https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/36226/jewish/About-Chabad-Lubavitch.htm
Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneerson, the “Rebbe Rayatz” (1880-1950), Chabad.org, https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/425/jewish/The-Rebbe-Rayatz.htm
Landa, Yosef, The Historic Visit by the Sixth Rebbe of Chabad to St. Louis, Chabad.org, https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3715920/jewish/The-Historic-Visit-by-the-Sixth-Rebbe-of-Chabad-to-St-Louis.htm
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880 – 1950), Jewish Virtual Library, https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/rabbi-yosef-yitzchak-schneersohn
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