Wilhelm Yechiel Guggenheim

His niece Leah said: her father;Rav Schlesinger managed to escape the German inferno together with his wife and all the children on the morning after Kristallnacht, the 11th of Cheshvan 5699 (1938). A chain of miraculous events, during which Rav Yechiel Michel hid in the floor of a rented taxi, led them to the Switzerland, where the rov's sister and brother-in-law, ambassador Yechiel Guggenheim z"l Yugoslavian Consul in Switzerland, was waiting for him. Guggenheim did everything in his power to help the family.

• Residence: Berlin, Stadt Berlin
  • Reference: Jewish Holocaust Memorials and Jewish Residents of Germany 1939-1945 - SmartCopy: Jan 3 2021, 18:27:21 UTC