Benjamin Eichler: Slovak Jewry and its struggle for rescue, 1939-1972

Benjamin Eichler: Slovak Jewry and its struggle for rescue, 1939-1972 Benjamin Eichler, born in 1908, was an Orthodox rabbi in Bratislava. From 1949 on he served as the head of the Central Association of Jewish Religious Congregations. When Jewish life became increasingly constrained under Communist rule, he made headlines when he met with Western Jewish leaders at the World Jewish Congress in Geneva in 1968. In 1969 he was forced to resign, and in 1972 to leave the country. He then...