Leading Jerusalem rabbi who survived Auschwitz dies aged 96

28 April 2019, 3:05 pm

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Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub, known as the Admor of Kalib, died this afternoon at his home in Jerusalem at the age of 96.

Born in Transylvania in 1923, Taub lived through the Holocaust. He survived Auschwitz and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camps and later was a subject of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele’s experimentation.

He moved to Israel in 1962 and spent his later years speaking and lecturing about the Holocaust.

Taub’s associates say the rabbi’s health had deteriorated rapidly over the last two weeks, when he slipped and fell in his home.

President Reuven Rivlin expressed his condolences, saying Taub “gave voice the spiritual heroism of Jews during the Holocaust and did all he could to honor the memory of its victims.”