the story of a child of Buchenwald who returned home at last
Israel Meir Lau was eight when he emerged as one of the youngest survivors from the Buchenwald concentration camp at the end of World War II. He could neither read nor write. Born in a small town in Poland in 1937, the son of the town's last chief rabbi, he is descended from an unbroken chain of rabbis spanning over 1,000 years. His entire family was murdered during the Holocaust with the exception of his brothers, Naphtali and Joshua, and an uncle who had already emigrated before the war. The miracle of his survival was made possible by the efforts of his brother Naphtali and a Russian prisoner. He is currently the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the state of Israel.
