"Hidden in Thunder"

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B"H

An extremely important suject for me is the "role of the rabbis during the Holocaust". How did leading rabbis, chassidic rebbes or the religious Zionist (national religious) movement react ?

Is it really true that the previous Belzer Rebbe, Rabbi Aharon Rokeach, told his Chassidim in a speech given at his last European Tish, to remain in Eastern Europe ?
And is it really true that the previous Satmarer Rebbe, Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, kept quiet when he was told about a camp called Auschwitz ? Did he keep quiet in order to avoid a panic among his Chassidim ?

Plenty of complicated questions and answers are all connected to each other and it is definitely not an easy subject. From some Chassidim I received plenty of material on how the religious Zionists treated the Chassidim during the Holocaust. A delicate role and historical facts, today's national religious movement doesn't want to hear about it anymore.

I am preparing some articles on the subject but would like to recommend a great book in advance. The book was just published last year and is called "Hidden in Thunder". The author Esther Farbstein did an immense research and her book is a valueable historical documentation.