About Robin Heffler

Let My History Go!

In 1915, in the midst of World War I, it didn’t take a genius to see that Germany was on the verge of attacking Russia. Rabbi Shalom Dovber, the fifth in a line of rabbis of the Chabad Lubavitch Jewish religious movement — who may well have been a genius — knew he had to get out of Russia fast. But Rabbi Dovber had a problem. He was in charge of the 250-year-old religious and historical heritage of the Chabad movement and had to find a safe place to store the thousands of books and …