Here is a talmid chacham who wrote an article about Slabodka – he was describing Slabodka, a history. I read the article. He’s telling about the old Slabodka Rav, Rav Moshe Donishefsky way back, a talmid chacham, a gadol baTorah. And then there was the Slabodka roshei yeshiva, and then another gadol took over. And then came Hitler.
Such a sheker! What do you mean and then came Hitler? What happened in between? I knew Slabodka; I lived there. What are you telling me stories? This gadol, and that gadol, and then came Hitler? What happened to the people in between? What about the Hebrew teachers? What about the schools that taught atheism? The gymnasia and the Tarbus schools! What about all the apikorsim who lived in Slabodka? I was there; I saw! Slabodka was a churban. There was a yeshiva, it’s true, but the city itself was no good at all. Europe was being turned upside down by the Jewish resha’im.
