1945—

Bachmairstrasse 12: Vaad Hatzala

A rescue committee founded in 1939 by Orthodox rabbis in the USA and Canada with the aim of rescuing Eastern European rabbis and religious students. After 1945, Vaad Hatzalah supported DPs in the DP camps, spiritually and materially. In Munich, the organization had an office at Bachmairstrasse 12, where the Deputy Director for Germany, Rabbi Aviezer Bustin, also lived.

Rabbi Aviezer Bustin (3rd from l.) distributing aid supplies © United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

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