Dr. Ella Florsheim

We Think of You as an Angel: An Unlikely Jewish Rescuer and Hero

“When one wants to achieve great things, one cannot shy away from responsibility."   Rabbi Shaul Weingort in a letter to Schabse Frenkel, July 18, 1945 Shortly before WWII broke out, Shaul Weingort (1914-1946), a young Polish rabbi, arrived in Switzerland. Although only in his mid-twenties, Rabbi Weingort was already regarded as a brilliant scholar. In the years that followed, Weingort sent letters to many of the greatest minds of the Jewish world. The topic of those letters, however, was... Continue reading