http://theantitzemach.blogspot.com/2009/09/blog-post_23.html
א"מ עשה למען באי באש ובמים על קידוש שמך
The above video shows a pogrom in Lemberg/Lvov, Ukraine in the summer of '41. The film has been sanitized, some of the more grotesque parts have been removed. It's part of a clip recently released by Reb Steven Spielberg and his film archive, and in the frum community it caused lots of ripples, shocks, waves - you name it. People are shocked to see what they believe to be the "Kedushas Tzion," Reb BenZion Halberstam of Bobov, HY"D, who was killed in Janower Forest in Lemberg on the 4th of Av, 1941. Like many of you, seeing frum Jews being harassed or herded together into cattle cars or lined up to be executed hits especially home for me, much like it would be in any tragedy. We tend to identify more with our frumbrethren more than we do with our irreligious ones. But this here - if it is the Rebbe - is something terribly tragic, much more than any picture, even the ones of theHungarian Rebbes and Rabbonim we showed here previously, as they waited on the ramp to Auschwitz. At least those showed no beatings or violence against them.
What can one say when he sees such unspeakable acts being carried out against such righteous Jews, one who took a real initiative and proactively traveled around Poland and Galicia establishing Yeshivos and saving Jewish neshomos from the temptations of the day? He can sit and cry, and he ask Hashem to end all of this already. There is debate as to whether or not it IS actually RBZH, but if not him then it's still a Yid, a Baal Tzureh, a kadosh who died only because he was Jewish, and especially because he carried the tzelem elokim with him, despite the extra difficulties it posed. Some of you may find it distasteful or worse, and you may condemn me posting it here, but I think it does provide a very important purpose for those of us alive today. It teaches to mourn for the lost souls and to remember what they accomplished. Maybe I'd feel differently about this if I was a Bobover Chossid, but I haven't seen any outcries from the Bobovers on the WWW, despite maybe thekhisoren being them. Maybe we can shed an extra tear this YK, and maybe, just maybe, this will tip the scale in our favor this year.
http://resources.ushmm.org/film/display/detail.php?file_num=2110 STEVEN SPIELBERG FILM AND VIDEO ARCHIVE Lvov Pogrom, Jews rounded up, beatings http://collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=5491 Bobover Rebbe Final Moments  Experts claim the Previous Bobover Rebbe R' Ben Zion Halberstam HY"D is seen being beaten by Ukrainians during World War II in a video clip released by Steven Spielberg's Holocaust project. By gruntig.blogspot.com/
Many in Boro Park speculate that a clip from the horror days of World War II includes the Previous Bobover Rebbe - Rav Ben Zion Halberstam (1874�) HY"D.
The Rebbe, they say, is seen being beaten by The Ukrainians under Nazi occupation, 3 days before being brutally murdered.
The original clip is from Steven Spielberg's video archive and contains the following information:
Title: Original German 8mm Film of Atrocities Against Jews
Event Date: 1941
Place: Lvov, Poland
Deion: Jews rounded up in Lvov, Poland. Victims tortured, pulled along ground; Jews lined up around building.
This 8 mm German film was used as exhibit in the Nuremberg IMT (German War Crimes Trials PS-3052), screened in the courtroom 13 December 1945. See "Nuremberg and Its Lesson" at NARA.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 238.7
According to a note on National Archives and Records Administration story card, "This is 8mm footage captured by U.S. Army in SS barracks in Augsburg, Germany." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased a copy from the National Archives and Records Administration in June 1991. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition."
Indeed, on July 25 of 1941 Parshas Matos-Masei, on Rosh Chodesh Av, at about 6pm while the Rebbe was removing his Rabbeinu Tam's Tefillin, the door opened suddenly and a Ukrainian youth entered together with the building’s gentile superintendent. The youth carried a red whip with the insignia of the Symon Petliura bands. The two were conducting a search of the house where the Rebbe was hiding.
The youth took one look at the Rebbe and immediately realized that this was a distinguished personage. He ordered the Rebbe to accompany him. The Rebbe's youngest son, Moshe Aaron, saw his father being led away, and pleaded to come along to help his father. At first the Ukrainian youth objected, but then he acceded and took along Moshe Aaron.
They were joined on the street corner by other distinguished prisoners from other areas in the city. Soldiers stood guard to prevent escape. When the number of captives reached a hundred, the guards arranged them in a row, three abreast, and ordered them to march.
The Rebbe was too weak to keep up with the rapid pace and moved to the back. The guards beat him with their batons and demanded that he hurry up. Eliyahu Avigdor held one of his hands and his son Moshe Aaron held the other until they reached Gestapo headquarters at Polczinski 4.
An eye-witness writes that "he saw from his window how the Rebbe, dressed in his Sabbath clothing was attacked by the soldiers. The cruel Ukrainians beat him on his head with their rifle-butts and his yarmulke fell to the ground. From time to time the Rebbe bent over and stooped to pick it up, and they beat him even more."
After three days, on Monday Parshas Devarim, Daled Av (July 28); four weeks after the Germans entered Lemberg; the Jewish captives were shot in the Yanover forest behind the city. 20,000 Jews were shot that day, the Rebbe, his son and his three sons-in-law included. (Source).
No one can positively confirm that this is the Rebbe but those who are officially experts on these matters (deal with pictures etc.) have reportedly said they are confident it is the Rebbe.
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