Reprint from 2005: World recalls Auschwitz liberation

• Reprinted on the occasion of the passing of Rabbi Israel Rosenfeld; from the IJN, Feb. 4, 2005 • years to the day — the 27th of January — is what it took for Rabbi Israel Rosenfeld to speak publicly of his time at Auschwitz. He has denied all previous opportunities to speak of it publicly, even courteously turning down the Shoah Visual History Foundation when it requested an interview. In similar spirit, he has never read a word written by Elie Wiesel or any other author who writes about the Holocaust, nor has he watched a single frame of “Schindler’s List” or any other film of its type. “This is the first time — today — that I’m talking about it,” Rabbi Rosenfeld told […]