father dynasty death_date successor birth_place title term birth_date |death_place image article_title
tzvi hirsh halberstam klausenburg 18 june 1994 shmiel dovid halberstam rudnik klausenburger rebbe 1927 -- june 18 , 1994 10 january 1905 netanya , israel admor sitting with bekashe.jpg yekusiel yehudah halberstam

yekusiel yehudah halberstam

yekusiel yehudah halberstam -lrb- january 10 , 1905 -- june 18 , 1994 -rrb- was an orthodox rabbi and the founding `` rebbe '' of the sanz-klausenburg hasidic dynasty .
halberstam became one of the youngest rebbes in europe , leading thousands of followers in the town of klausenburg , romania , before world war ii .
his wife , eleven children and most of his followers were murdered by the nazis while he was incarcerated in several concentration camps .
after the war , he moved to the united states and later to israel , rebuilt jewish communal life in the displaced persons camps of western europe , re-established his dynasty in the united states and israel , founded a haredi neighborhood in israel and a sanz community in the united states , established a hospital in israel run according to jewish law , and rebuilt his own family with a second marriage and the birth of seven more children .
