Oswald Rufeisen
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Oswald Rufeisen (1922 1998), known popularly as Brother Daniel, was born to a Jewish family in Zadziele near O wi cim, Poland. During his youth, Rufeisen belonged to Bnei Akiva, a religious Zionist youth movement. Hillel Zeidel, an Israel Liberal party Knesset member who broke ranks and joined Menachem Begin s Likud in 1977, was a childhood friend from the movement. To escape Nazi persecution, he hid in a monastery for over a year; during this time he decided to convert to Catholicism. He helped to save hundreds of Jews in the town of Mir, Belarus from deportation to concentration camps. In…mehr

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Oswald Rufeisen (1922 1998), known popularly as Brother Daniel, was born to a Jewish family in Zadziele near O wi cim, Poland. During his youth, Rufeisen belonged to Bnei Akiva, a religious Zionist youth movement. Hillel Zeidel, an Israel Liberal party Knesset member who broke ranks and joined Menachem Begin s Likud in 1977, was a childhood friend from the movement. To escape Nazi persecution, he hid in a monastery for over a year; during this time he decided to convert to Catholicism. He helped to save hundreds of Jews in the town of Mir, Belarus from deportation to concentration camps. In 1945, after the war, Rufeisen returned to Poland, converted, studied for the priesthood, and became a Carmelite monk.