ב"הJanuary 26, 1948
Mr. Samuel Kramer1
122 East 42nd Street,
New York 27, N.Y.
Dear Mr. Kramer:
I wish to take this opportunity to thank you for your good offices in connection with our request for Military permits for the two delegates to the Occupation Zones in Europe.2
We are in receipt of the letters from Congressman Bloom and from the Army Department to Sen. Wagner, which you were good enough to forward to us. We shall be equally obliged to you for forwarding to us any other correspondence you may further receive on the subject.
I want you to know that we sincerely appreciate your kind cooperation in the matter, which is of far-reaching importance to many of our sorely pressed brethren in the displaced camps in Europe. They are certainly suffering considerably physically, but their spiritual plight is no less serious. The proper education facilities which the M.L.C3 is doing its best to make available to them and to others is more than a first-aid injection. In the words of last week’s Sidrah:3 “All the disease... I will not afflict upon thee, for I the Lord am thy healer.” The best cure, the Torah teaches us, is prevention. A good Jewish education, that is one in the spirit of the Torah and Mitzvah, achieves this objective. This is also the purpose of the M.L.C,3
With kind regards,
Sincerely yours,
Rabbi Mendel Schneerson
Chairman, Executive Committee
Notes and sources
Written on the stationery of “Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch.”
1) Mr. Yekusiel (Sam) Kramer (11 Cheshvan, 5655 - New York, 1 Iyar, 5746) was the legal attorney for Agudas Chasidei Chabad of America and a Lubavitch activist. His family immigrated to America when he was one. His father was a wealthy philanthropist and the first president of Agudas Chassidei Chabad. The Kramer family where instrumental in developing Chabad in America. Sam was especially involved in the Rebbe Rayatz’s release from prison in 1927. The Kramer family arranged and supported the Rebbe Rayatz’s visit to the U.S. in 1929-1930 and his immigration to America in 1940. They helped purchase a house for the Rebbe Rayatz which then became the headquarters of Lubavitch. Sam also enjoyed taking videos and took many videos of the Rebbe Rayatz. Additional letters addressed to Mr. Kramer include those dated 9 April, 1949; 17 November, 1949; Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, 5710; 2 Tammuz, 5717, 7 Iyar, 5735.
2) The Rebbe Rayatz wanted to send two Shluchim (Mendel Baumgarten and Zalman Posner) to the D.P. camps in Europe. (After many Russian Jews were able to escape the Soviet Union using false Polish visas in the years 5706-7, many of them ended up in D.P. camps in Germany and Austria where conditions were terrible. See also Freidland, Pe'ilos Chotzah Gevulos and Matusof, Hayitziah Merusia.) For more about the Shluchim, see also Igros Kodesh of the Rebbe Rayatz, vol. 9, letter 3176, 3200; vol. 13, letter 4940; Igros Kodesh of the Rebbe, vol. 2, letter 326, 329, 338, 359, 363-5.
3) Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch.
4) Shemos 15:26 (Parshas Beshalach).
Source: Secretary's copy.
Published: Tzadik Lamelech, vol 7 (1994), 2.
Merkos Delegates to Europe
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