Bratislava advices said today that the Gestapo has tortured to death the Sondsher Rabbi Jechezkiel Halberstadt whose body was delivered his family two days after his arrest. The rabbi was a native of Poland and was the grandson of the famous head of the Sondsher dynasty of Chassidic rabbis.
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