Day 49
Deeds of Distinction
In loving memory of Dr Ian Silverman who dedicated his life to family and others. In our hearts forever, his daughters Lisa and Ruth.
Republished with permission of Mesorah Publications from In the Footsteps of the Maggid.
In 1940, Rabbi Binyamin Schachner was hauled from his home in the small town of Susnofsza, Poland, to the first of seven concentration camps he was eventually to be in. Among the few possessions that he managed to take along with him were his tefillin. Rabbi Binyamin always kept a close watch on his tefillin, shielding and safeguarding them as though they were his life’s greatest treasure. Every day, when he was sure that none of the Nazi guards were looking, he would remove the tefillin from their hiding place, don them on his hand and head and say the Shema.
Others in his barracks, inspired by his actions, would borrow the tefillin and do the same.
