Fishman, Eli

Rabbi Eli Fishman grew up as a yeshiva student in Rachov, near Lublin, Poland. He attended the Mechina of Yachal (the preparatory school for Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin) and from the fall of 1938 he was accepted to the famed Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin. The outbreak of WWII on September 1, 1939, tore him from his studies. Separated from his family, he endured the work camps Goscieradow, Budzyn (part of Majdanek), and Ostrovtso, before being sent to Auschwitz and the death march through Germany to Dachau, where he was liberated by the American army.Ordained by Chief Rabbi of Germany Rabbi Samuel A. S...