Rav Yehoshua Moshe Aharonson

(Kislev 12, 5754 / 1993 - 31st Yahrzeit)

Rav Yehoshua Moshe Aharonson of Petach Tikva was born in Warsaw and was named Rav of Sanok in 1937. In the winter of early 1940, he was appointed to the Bais Din of Warsaw. In March 1942, he was deported to the Konin labor camp, near Chelmno. The Konin camp was liquidated in the summer of 1943. Rav Aharonson was taken to Hohensalza, and afterward to Auschwitz 3 (Buna). In 1945, he was transferred from Auschwitz to Buchenwald and then taken on a death march to Theresienstadt, where he was liberated. He subsequently moved to Eretz Yisrael, where he served as a Rav in Petach Tikva and Emmanuel. His writings were collected in the book Alei Meroros.