Samuel A. Snieg
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Samuel A. (Shmuel Abba) Snieg (1899—1970[1][2]) was chief rabbi in the American Zone of the Allied-occupied Germany, a survivor of the Dachau concentration camp, and an organizer of the printing of the Survivors' Talmud.[3][4]
Snieg was raised in Rokiškis, Lithuania, and helped found Yeshiva Eitz Chaim in Lithuania. He was later a Rabbi for soldiers in Lithuania.[5][6]
Family
[edit]His wife, Chana (nee Hurowitz), perished in the Stutthof concentration camp.[7] After the war, he remarried and his second wife, Chaya Leah, died in 1963.[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ "What is New in Lithuania".
- ↑ "כרטיס קבר".
- ↑ "American Army helps Published the Talmud".
- ↑ Fagin, Allen I. "The "Survivors' Talmud" and the Obligation to Remember".
- ↑ Goren, Nathen (1959). Yahadut Lita. pp. Vol. 1, p. 240, Vol. 3, p. 362.
- ↑ "What is New in Lithuania".
- ↑ Goren, Nathan (1959). Yahadut Lita, Vol. 2. p. 164.
- ↑ "Notice in Newspaper of the passing of his wife".
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