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Solomon Schonfeld was born on 21 February, 1912, is a British Rabbi who was honoured as a British Hero of the Holocaust. Discover Solomon Schonfeld's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

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1912

Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld (21 February 1912 – 6 February 1984) was a British Rabbi who was honoured as a British Hero of the Holocaust for saving the lives of thousands of Jews.

Schonfeld was the second son of Rabbi Avigdor and Rochel Leah Schonfeld, one of seven children.

His family home was at 73 Shepherd's Hill, Highgate, London, and he was educated at Highbury County School.

His family was originally from Hungary.

Schonfeld studied at the yeshiva in Nyitra, Austria-Hungary (now Nitra, Slovakia), and studied for a doctorate at the University of Königsberg, East Prussia.

In Nitra he became the student and lifelong friend of Rabbi Michoel Ber Weissmandl, who acted as his inspiration in his rescue work.

1930

When the scale of rescue work needed became apparent in the 1930s, he became the executive director of the Chief Rabbi's Religious Emergency Council, formed under the auspices of his future father-in-law, Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz, in 1938.

1933

In 1933 he became the rabbi of the Adath Yisroel Synagogue in North London, and succeeded his father as principal of the fledgling Jewish Secondary School.

He was the Presiding Rabbi of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations and president of the National Council for Jewish Religious Day Schools in Great Britain.

1938

He personally rescued many thousands of Jews from Nazi forces in Central and Eastern Europe during the years 1938–1948.

He felt Zionism had aided the Nazi regime's persecution of Jews.

In the autumn of 1938, following Kristallnacht, Julius Steinfeld, a communal leader in Austria, called Rabbi Schonfeld, pleading with him to assemble a children's transport to England for Vienna's Orthodox Jewish youth.

Rabbi Schonfeld met with Yaakov Rosenheim and Harry Goodman, president and secretary of World Agudath Israel respectively, but even before they could decide on a strategy, he boarded a train to Vienna.

Rabbi Schonfeld helped Steinfeld organize a Kindertransport of close to 300 Orthodox Jewish youngsters, providing the British government with his personal guarantee in order to secure their entry.

He saved large numbers of Jews with South American protection papers.

He brought over to England several thousand young people, rabbis, teachers, ritual slaughterers and other religious functionaries.

He provided them with kosher homes, Jewish education and jobs.

Schonfeld also initiated major rescue initiatives.

1940

In 1940, he married Judith Helen Hertz, daughter of the Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz.

They had three sons.

Schonfeld personally rescued thousands of Jews.

He was a very charismatic, dedicated, innovative and dynamic young man.

His rescue efforts were inspired by his teacher at the Nitra Yeshivah, Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl.

This explains, in part, some of his daring and innovative rescue style.

His rescue activities were under auspices of the Chief Rabbi's Religious Emergency Council, which he created with approval of Chief Rabbi Hertz, his father-in-law.

1942

In late summer 1942 he convinced the Colonial Office to allow Jews to find safe haven in Mauritius.

In December 1942 he discussed his ideas about rescue with a number of prominent churchmen and Members of Parliament, and organized parliamentary support for a motion that asked the government to make a declaration along the following lines:

"That in view of the massacres and starvation of Jews and others in enemy and enemy-occupied countries, this House asks H. M. Government, following the United Nations Declaration read to both Houses of Parliament on 17th December, 1942, and in consultation with the Dominion Governments and the Government of India, to declare its readiness to find temporary refuge in its own territories or in territories under its control for endangered persons who are able to leave those countries; to appeal to the Governments of countries bordering on enemy and enemy-occupied countries to allow temporary asylum and transit facilities for such persons; to offer to those Governments, so far as practicable, such help as may be needed to facilitate their co-operation; and to invite the other Allied Governments to consider similar action."

Within ten days, two Archbishops, eight Peers, four Bishops, the Episcopate of England and Wales and 48 members of all parties signed the notice of meeting to consider the Motion.

Eventually the number of members of Parliament in support of the motion rose to 177.

1943

In January 1943 Schonfeld worked with Eleanor Rathbone to devise a practical rescue plan, but they then encountered Zionist opposition.

The Parliamentary motion had omitted Palestine as a haven, and was therefore vocally opposed as was the case with the Mauritius initiatives.

He assumed that if he owned an island he is free to invite Jews who can escape from the continent to stay there even for extended periods.

He got positive response from the Colonial Office, raised £10,000 and purchased Stranger's Cey, an island in the British Bahamas.

Later a different Colonial Office department countered the initial support for the plan.

Schonfeld considered as another failure his unsuccessful request to the British government to heed Rabbi Weissmandl's plea to bomb the railway tracks to Auschwitz and possibly the crematoria.

After the war he went to liberated Europe (e.g. Poland) to bring children and others to England, help and serve the survivors.

1946

In 1946, after the Allied victory, he went with a convey of lorries to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps to help survivors move to fledgling communities.

He travelled in an Austin 7 car with armed soldiers for protection.

He created and wore a military style uniform to give the impression he was an army officer.