Nazi Germany's Last Surviving Rabbi Marks Passover Seder

[struggle4progress]

Leo Trepp sees modern message of freedom in ritual
Lonny Shavelson | San Rafael, California

... In San Rafael, California, a man with first-hand experience of Jewish enslavement and liberation led a seder for his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

At 97, Leo Trepp is the last known living rabbi who led German-Jewish communities through the Nazi Holocaust of World War II.

His voice is strong and clear as he chants the Hebrew prayers and leads the singing. This is the 74th year Trepp is conducting a Passover seder. His first was in 1936. He was 23, newly ordained, in Oldenburg, Germany, a region then controlled by the Nazis ...

Within two years of ordination, Rabbi Trepp was the leader of 15 congregations. Until November 9, 1938, Krystalnacht - the night of broken glass - and the burning down of all of his synagogues. He was arrested, and the next day taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp ...

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/religion/Nazi-Germanys-Last-Surviving-Rabbi-Marks-Passover-Seder-89787292.html

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. Wow.

"He who saves one life saves the world entire. He who kills one life kills the world entire."

--From the Talmud, quoted in Schindler's List, at the end when Schindler's workers make him a ring and engrave that saying on it for him as a memento.