Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah Scheerson was the wife of the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneerson, and mother of the sixth Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak. She fled the advancing front of World War I from Lubavitch to Rostov. In 1927, she witnessed the arrest of her son by Stalin's henchmen, that night he was taken away and sentenced to death, for his efforts to keep Judaism alive throughout the Soviet empire. After he was reprieved and released the family resettled in Latvia and later, Poland; in 1940, they survived the bombing of Warsaw, were rescued from Nazi-occupied city, and emigrated to the United States.
She lived a quiet life here in the States.
She lived a quiet life here in the States.
Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah Scheerson was the wife of the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneerson, and mother of the sixth Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak. She fled the advancing front of World War I from Lubavitch to Rostov. In 1927, she witnessed the arrest of her son by Stalin's henchmen, that night he was taken away and sentenced to death, for his efforts to keep Judaism alive throughout the Soviet empire. After he was reprieved and released the family resettled in Latvia and later, Poland; in 1940, they survived the bombing of Warsaw, were rescued from Nazi-occupied city, and emigrated to the United States.
She lived a quiet life here in the States.
She lived a quiet life here in the States.
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