Ephraim Oshry, was an Orthodox rabbi, posek, and author of The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry.
10 Facts About Ephraim Oshry
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Ephraim Oshry was one of the few European rabbis to survive the Holocaust.
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Ephraim Oshry studied alongside some of the most prominent and revered Jewish leaders and rabbis of his time, including the Alter of Slabodka, Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Isaac Sher and Avraham Duber Kahana Shapiro.
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Ephraim Oshry quickly rose to prominence among the students at Slabodka Yeshiva.
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Ephraim Oshry related in horrific detail how the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators viciously murdered Jews, but he focused on the spiritual life of the Jews living in the Kovno Ghetto and concentration camp.
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In 1950, Ephraim Oshry moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with his family and yeshiva students.
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In 1952, Ephraim Oshry moved to New York City, where he became the rabbi of Beth Hamedrash Hagodol.
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Ephraim Oshry opened a yeshiva for boys and a yeshiva for girls named Yeshivah Torah V'Emunah in the East Bronx.
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In 1949, Ephraim Oshry became engaged to his second wife, Frieda Greensweig, a daughter of Sigeter Hasidim, at the suggestion of her uncle Moshe Friserman, the Tomashover Rebbe.
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Ephraim Oshry died on September 28,2003, at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.