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The Heroic Struggle
The Rebbe’s Prison Diary
The 12th hof Tammuz (this year, Shabbat, July 12, 2003) is celebrated by the Chabad Chassidic community as the anniversary of the liberation of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, from his imprisonment and subsequent exile by the Soviet authorities in 1927. The following are excerpts from Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn's personal account of his arrest, imprisonment and liberation.
Days of Light (introduction)
In a letter, the Rebbe summarizes his history of arrests and imprisonments, and describes the special place these hours, days and weeks occupy in his life
Chapter VI: Prison Regulations
Chapter VIII: The First Interrogation
Translation by Rabbi Dr. Alter B. Z. Metzger; from The Heroic Struggle, Kehot Publication Society (1999).
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