Rebbetzin esther jungreis biography sample
Esther jungreis...
Rebbetzin esther jungreis biography sample
Esther Jungreis
Holocaust survivor, author and a religious public speaker
Esther Jungreis (April 27, – August 23, ,[1] 19 Menachem Av, ) was a Jewish, Hungarian-born, American author, and public speaker.
She was the founder of the international Hineni organization in the United States. A Holocaust survivor and rebbetzin, she worked to returnsecular Jews to Orthodox Judaism.
Biography
Jungreis was born[2] in Szeged, Hungary on April 27, ,[3] to Avraham and Miriam Jungreis.
Her two brothers, Jacob and Binyamin, both became rabbis.[4] Her father was an Orthodox rabbi and operated a shtiebel in the city,[5] in the Neolog (Reform) community.[6] Avraham Jungreis was deported with other Jews from Szeged in a cattle car bound for Auschwitz.
However, a relative who worked for Rudolph Kastner's office arranged for the cattle car to be opened while passing through Budapest and the entire Jungreis family was transferred on