Letter by Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler Regarding the Welfare of His Wife & Daughter during the Holocaust. London, 1941.
During the outbreak of World War Two, Harav Eliyahu Dessler was in London. However, his wife, Rebbetzin Bluma — a granddaughter of the Alter of Kelm, and his daughter had recently traveled to visit family in Lithuania and were stuck in Eastern Europe, unable to return home.
In this letter, Harav Dessler expresses his deep concern for the health and welfare of his wife and daughter. “Regarding my wife and daughter, it is unlikely that they will be able to return now; and I worry for their health and all their other concerns…Hashem should have mercy on them, among all those who are suffering…”
Harav Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1892-1953) author of Michtav Me’Eliyahu and one of the foremost masters of mussar and Jewish philosophy in Lithuanian yeshivos. As a young man, he accompanied his father Harav Reuven Dov Dessler to England for a medical procedure and decided to remain there. He moved from London to Eretz Yisrael following the invitation by the Ponoviczer Rav to serve as mashgiach in the Ponovicz Yeshivah in Bnei Brak. His famous Michtav Me’Eliyahu is one of the fundamental contemporary mussar sefarim.
London. December 10, 1941. Postcard. Minor signs of paper clip rust
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