Comrade

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A Gripping Story of Self Sacrifice and Kiddush Hashem.

“Comrade Lifshitz, you are still young,” the official said in a suspiciously soft tone. “Therefore, you will be given a chance to correct your mistakes in a place devoid of misleading influences. You will be sent to Siberia for three years…”

Under the oppressive communist regime in Russia, thousands of g-d fearing Jews tragically perished, struggling to uphold the Torah’s ways. Many of those who did survive exile to the Siberian labor camps succumbed spiritually under the unbearable suffering meted out to them for their “heinous crime” against Mother Russia. The crime of being a practicing religious Jew.

Many succumbed - but not Reb Mottel Lifshitz.