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"Take the Boy" | The Story of Holocaust Survivor Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau

The film tells the story of Holocaust survivor and former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau. Born in 1937 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland, Yisrael Meir Lau survived a Nazi Aktion in the Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto on October 1942, together with his mother and brother. He was later assigned to work at the Hortensja Glass Factory. In November 1944, during a selection, his mother managed to place him with his older brother Naftali, and the two were sent to a forced labor camp in Częstochowa. In January 1945, as the Allied forces approached, they were subsequently deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp. At Buchenwald, fellow inmates marked his prisoner uniform with the letter “P” (for Polish nationality), which allowed him slightly improved conditions. A Russian prisoner, Feodor Mikhailichenko, aided him by providing food and clothing and even shielded him with his own body from gunfire during the camp’s liberation. On April 11, 1945, Buchenwald was liberated by American forces. Later that year, while Yisrael and Naftali were in France preparing to immigrate to the pre-state Israel, they learned that their mother, Chaya, had been murdered in Ravensbrück. In the summer of 1945, Yisrael and Naftali immigrated to the pre-state Israel. Yisrael pursued religious studies at various Torah and Talmud institutions and began working as a Bible teacher. He is the 38th generation in an unbroken lineage of rabbis. Over the years, he served as rabbi of numerous synagogues and neighborhoods, was appointed Chief Rabbi of Netanya, then of Tel Aviv–Jaffa, and served as a member of the Chief Rabbinate Council. From 1999 to 2003, Rabbi Lau was the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. He is married, with eight children, and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.