25 Cheshvan 5703 (November 5, 1942) – Reb Menachem Mendel Horenstein, Son-in-law of the Previous Rebbe, Martyred in the Holocaust

00:00 Speaker 1 For Yom Chabad, uh, today for- we'll talk about the twenty-fifth day of the month of Cheshvan. MarCheshvan, uh, this is in the year Tishrei Gimel. This is right during the Holocaust. Um, it's the, uh, day in which Rabbi Menachem Mendel Cohen Horenstein, uh, he was the son-in-law of the, um, of the, uh, Mitla Rebbe. He was the youngest son-in-law of the Mitla Rebbe, the Friediker Rebbe. The previous Rebbe had three daughters. One was married to Rabbi Gurary, and the second was married to our Rebbe, to the Rebbe, and the third one was married to this pers- to this Rabbi Menachem Mendel Cohen Horenstein, and he was taken to the gas chambers, unfortunately, on the day of the twenty-fifth day of MarCheshvan. I noticed in the Yom Yom, the Rebbe just uses the word Cheshvan without the word MarCheshvan. Mar, uh, means usually bitter, but, uh, here Mar doesn't mean bitter because what's bitter about Cheshvan? No, it's-- Mar comes from the language of rain. No, there's other various difference. Not actually... Some people say it's not two words, it's one word. But I noticed that the Rebbe in the Yom Yom calls it Cheshvan, not MarCheshvan, but over here they write it as MarCheshvan. But, uh, this is certainly was a tragedy that the son-in-law, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Cohen Horenstein, the son-in-law of the previous Rebbe, was taken to the gas chamber. And he was the son of, uh, Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka and-- who was the daughter of the Rebbe Maharash. Uh, the Rebbe Maharash's

01:48 Speaker 1 daughter married Rabbi Moshe Cohen Horenstein. And, um, they had Rabbi Menachem Mendel Cohen Horenstein. So he was actually a direct descendant from theee Rebb- from the Tzemach Tzedek, uh, because, uh, from the Rebbe Maharash because his mother was the daughter of the Rebbe Maharash. And, uh, in the year Taf Reish Tsadik Beis, so that was, uh, 1932 around, um, he married, uh, the Rebbetzin Sheneh, the youngest daughter of the previous Rebbe. When the previous Rebbe left Poland, uh, that was in the-- he escaped, you know, from Warsaw right in the middle of the war. He wanted very much that also his daughter and her husband, uh, should go out together. But they were Polish citizens, so that wasn't possible. Um, and later on, uh-

02:56 Speaker 2 How was the daughter a Polish citizen if she was born in Russia?

02:58 Speaker 1 Yeah. But I guess the husband was, um, she didn't go without-