Rare Photos Found in the Files of Rabbi Schwei

By www.LubavitchArchives.com

Sometimes in unexpected places you find treasure troves.

In the files of Rabbi Yaakov Schwei obm, member of the Crown Heights Beis Din, were a group of photos from the 1940’s and early 1950’s. The portraits from chassidim in the DP Camp in Pocking, Germany, Paris, France and Montreal, Quebec, were seemingly given as mementos from their time together during a difficult era.

Most of them just 3″ x 2″, while others were just 1″ x 1″, are a testament to the love between the chassidim.

Some of them were marked with the names, while most were not. If you know who any of them are, please let us know.

01) R. Yisroel Nevler and Shmuel Moshe (Der Alter).
02) Sholom Ber Lieberov.
03) R. Pinchus Korf.
7) R. Yaakov Schwei.
16) R. Baruch Shalom Schwei.
18) R. Zalman Serebryanski.
19) R. Moshe Yitzchok Gurkov.
20) R. Zalman Butman.
23) R. Peretz Feigenson.

With special appreciation to the Schwei family for permitting us to scan the photos. To assist in future scanning projects to document Chabad history, please do so here: https://cash.app/$HasidicArchives