Shlomo Wahrman

Rabbi Shlomo Wahrman was born and raised in Leipzig, Germany. In 1939, at the age of twelve, he and his Polish-born parents and his siblings received American visas.

Rabbi Wahrman concluded his book, Lest We Forget: Growing up in Nazi Leipzig 1933-1939, with the following words:

All these events have delivered a powerful message to me. Any Jewish city anywhere could potentially suffer Leipzig’s fate, chas v’shalom. There is no safety and security for us in galus, even in a democracy. The German Weimar Republic was a democracy, yet it could not prevent the emergence of a Hitler. When the anti-Semites so decreed, Leipzig, a city of 18,000 Jews, became Judenrein.[1]

Soon after arriving in New York, Rabbi Wahrman's family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he grew close to Rabbi Eliezer Silver,[1] about whom he wrote a short biography "ShtetLinks: Obeliai Silver Page". kehilalinks.jewishgen.org. Retrieved 2016-11-02.</ref> Wahrman studied at several different yeshivas in the United States, including the Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey.

After marrying Sarah Malka Herskovitz, an orphaned refugee who arrived in the United States after surviving the Holocaust, Wahrman went to Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he received a master's degree in education.

He later became rosh yeshiva (dean) of Hebrew Academy of Nassau County (HANC) and authored over a dozen books.[1]

The Shoah Foundation interviewed Wahrman and his wife in 1997 about their experiences in Germany before, and during, WWII.[2]

In addition to numerous articles printed under a pseudonym in various Torah journals, he wrote a series of in-depth analyses of Torah topics called She'eris Yosef.

For decades he was a regular contributor to Torah journals including Ohr HaMizrach, HaMaor, HaPardes, and HaDarom.[3]

• Words of Appreciation by Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman
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