On 1 September 1939, the first day of the WW2, the Germans Luftwaffe started bombing the City of Wieluń. It killed an estimated 1,300 civilians and destroyed 90 percent of the town center. Wieluń was annexed to the third Reich. Rabbi Henoch Gad decided to flee with his family and remaining community. First he escaped to Łódź, from Łódź to Warsaw, to Czestochowa. After the Rebbe escaped Wieluń, his home was hit by German Bombs and destroyed.