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Shmarya writes:
Chabad had $5000 in the bank specifically earmarked for the Frierdiker Rebbe's rescue. They still did NOT pay the lawyer who arranged the rescue. Further, the Frierdiker Rebbe's files show clearly that he did NOT work on rescue for ALL Jews. He only worked on the rescue of a few of his students and yeshiva teachers, the Gerrer Rebbe, (some also say the Belzer Rebbe, but this is unclear), and the Frierdiker Rebbe's library (80 % secular books according to record), household effects, silver and JEWELRY – in fact, he spent much time and effort trying to
save his possessions while Jews were being slaughtered all around him.
After he got to America the Frierdiker Rebbe campaigned to start a Lubavitch yeshiva, even though there were other already-functioning yeshivot with Chabad students and the money required to open a Chabad yeshiva was desperately needed for rescue. He also started a Pidyon Shvuim/rescue fund and regularly advertized for donations. According to Rigg, most of the money went to the new Chabad Yeshiva, not to rescue.
He also refused to cooperate with Mike Tress and others who saved thousands of lives, and condemned the Rabbis March on Washington as a fruitless endevor that would never work. That march is credited with starting the War Refugee Board that saved more than 200,000 Jews from Hitler.
The Frierdiker Rebbe also started a Moshiach Campaign, arguing that the Allies would not be able to defeat Hitler, only G-d and his messiah would be able to do it. In that vein, he condemned emergency Shabbat appeals for rescue funds as being counterproductive – but again, Mike Tress and his coworkers saved thousands of Jews with those appeals, and did so with Rabbinic sanction.
I should also add that, in all the Frierdiker Rebbe's correspondence with high US Government officials, including President Roosevelt, the Frierdiker Rebbe never asked for Jews to be saved, for immigration quotas to be raised, or any other practical form of rescue. This is even more troubling because the Frierdiker Rebbe had been portrayed by Chabad as the Chief Rabbi of all the Orthodox Jews in the world (more than "3 million," in one document!), yet this 'chief rabbi' NEVER
pushed for rescue.
Chabad's record during this time is very troubling.
