The Rebbe’s Prison Diary

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12–13 Tammuz is the anniversary of the liberation of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, from Soviet prisons in 1927.

The following is a personal account of his arrest and imprisonment, and his subsequent liberation.

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Translation by Rabbi Dr. Alter B. Z. Metzger; from The Heroic Struggle, published by Kehot.

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	Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn’s personal account of his arrest and imprisonment by the Soviets in the summer of 1927, and his subseqeuent liberation.


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