Testimony: A curbed childhood in a small town in England, in the home of a Holocaust survivor father who hid a wonderous secret
On Yom HaShoah eve, David Gershon Weiss told his story, and nobody in the audience was able to hold back their tears.
He is currently the head of a community in Bnei Brak, the father of twelve children and the grandfather of seventy grandchildren. He grew up in the shadow of a father who was a true hero that dedicated his life to save Jews on the eve of World War II in Munich and its surroundings. The father, who was devoid of any general or Torah education due to beign orphaned of his father and mother, managed to establish connections with the senior SS officers and to save many Jews from the jaws of death. He also brought for burial, together with one other friend, over 1,000 German and Austrian Jews who were murdered in Dachau in the days before World War II.
If it were not for the silence that his father imposed on himself throughout his life, first in Switzerland and later in England, Mechel Weiss should have received an official certificate as a rescuer of countless Jews at the beginning of the war and in the two years preceding it. However, the miraculous story that will soon be published by the publishing department of the Ganzach Kiddush Hashem, backed by documents and testimonies, will reveal the miraculous story of the young orphan who, through true devotion saved countless Jews from a tragic fate.
At the end of his days, Mechel was blessed with holy pride joy, and his descendants grace the Torah and chassidic synagogues in Israel, the United States, and Europe. We, at the Ganzach Kiddush Hashem, will do everything in our power to complete the research and publish its breathtaking findings.
The heroic story of Mechel Weiss from Tarnow, Munich, England, and Switzerland will be published in the near future, with special emphasis on the miraculous secret that he hid until his last day.
