Photos: Tefillin in the Heart of Auschwitz
During the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a group of Chabad Chassidim offered participants the opportunity to put on tefillin — a moving moment of reconnection to Judaism at the very place where an attempt was made to destroy Jewish life. Many marchers, young and old alike, responded with heartfelt emotion • Read More, Photos
Joining the young Chabad men were the Rebbe’s Shluchim to Poland, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Stambler and Rabbi Eliezer Gurary, who helped strengthen the atmosphere of remembrance and faith. Both emphasized the powerful message of active Jewish presence precisely at Auschwitz.
Among the marchers were also notable figures, including philanthropist and social activist Shay Graucher, who came to support and uplift the participants, and Agam Berger, a survivor of captivity from the Nahal Oz outpost, who had been abducted on October 7 and freed after 482 days in Hamas captivity. During the march, Agam’s brother put on tefillin.
The tefillin moments, captured by photographer Shalom Ostrovsky, became a small yet powerful symbol of the enduring Jewish soul — a living memory that continues to shine even in the darkest of places.
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