“Mi l’Hashem elai!” In every generation, there are those who respond and take a stand for Hashem
That cry has traveled through the centuries. And in every generation, there are those who respond and take a stand for Hashem. Eight stories
For years, I wondered why the area of southern Transylvania — birthplace of my father, Reb Shabtai Nissel — had been spared by the Nazis. Northern Transylvania had been given over to the Hungarian Nazis, its inhabitants sent to Auschwitz, but the Nazis in the south never ended up sending people to Auschwitz.
I asked around, explored, investigated, yet no one seemed to know. When I was sitting shivah, I asked my father’s peers, but none of them had satisfactory answers.
While researching on the website Jewish Gen, I was actually able to see the records: The entire region of Arad, which is where my father was from, was slated to go to the death camp Belzec in 1942. I saw my father’s name, his brothers, his parents, his cousins — the entire extended family was listed on this census. The transport was scheduled for Rosh Chodesh Shevat. No one could tell me why it had been canceled.
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