From Budapest to Bergen-Belsen to Baltimore: The Saga of Harav Zvi Dov Slanger
Each year, on the 21st of Kislev, Harav Zvi Dov Slanger, Rosh Yeshiva of Beis Hamedrash and Mesivta of Baltimore, celebrates a seudas hoda’ah (thanksgiving meal) with his yeshiva to commemorate the day in 1944 when he arrived in Switzerland, following his incarceration in Bergen-Belsen. This year, Harav Slanger will celebrate 70 years since that awesome day. In preparation for this remarkable event, Harav Slanger agreed to share his moving story, a story that demonstrates hashgacha pratis (Divine providence), obvious miracles, and, most of all, the fulfillment of the pasuk, “I will not have been revolted by them, nor will I have rejected them to obliterate them, to annul my Covenant with them.” (Artscroll Stone Chumash, Vayikra 26:44)