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Rabbi Ephraim Oshry, who helped Jews live religiously during the Holocaust, died in New York on Sept. 28 at 89. Oshry held secret services and was a rabbinical scholar who answered Jews’ theological questions during World War II while living in the Kovno Ghetto.

October 6, 2003
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Rabbi Ephraim Oshry, who helped Jews live religiously during the Holocaust, died in New York on Sept. 28 at 89. Oshry held secret services and was a rabbinical scholar who answered Jews’ theological questions during World War II while living in the Kovno Ghetto.

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