Responsa ‘Hisorerot Teshuva’ by Rabbi Shimon Sofer of Erloy. First Edition.
Inscription & stamps of Rabbi Yaakon Klamko of Raab.
Stamps of the famous Askan R.Chaim Roth of Budapest.
R. Chaim Roth (1896-1990), a hasidic Jew born in Budapest, who was a businessman and a community leader. With the outbreak of war in 1939, he became a member of the Budapest Vaad Hatzalah, which initially focused on helping Jewish refugees from other countries. Roth participated in the rescue of hasidic rabbis (e.g. the rebbes of Belz, Stropkov, Munkács, Bobov, and Satmar) and in dealings with Raoul Wallenberg and Carl Lutz, and forged letters of protection for many Jews. In fall 1944 Roth was sent for forced labor, but he soon managed to return and to enter the Swiss glass house, with his family, where he continued to forge papers to save Jews. On 31 December, shortly before the liberation, the Arrow Cross invaded the glass house, where ca. 2,500 Jews were hiding. The owner of the glass factory, Arthur Weiss, called a Swiss diplomat who came and saved the Jews; however, Weiss was then forced to give himself up and was killed. Roth and his family remained in Hungary, where his wife died, and then emigrated to the U.S. in 1951.
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