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| "The State Department has received a telegraphic report from the Consular Officer in Marseilles... that visas were issued to Rabbi Schneerson and his wife on April 17" |
Escaping The Nazi onslaught, in 1941, the
Rebbe and the
Rebbetzin boarded the Serpa Pinto and set sail (from Marseilles, France, via Lisbon, Portugal) for the United States of America.
On the 28th of Sivan, they arrived safely on the shores of America, and took up residence in New York, where her father had settled in 1940.
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| The Rebbe and Rebbetzin's Home President Street, Brooklyn |
True, Chaya Mushka herself had escaped the Nazi claws, but she would not escape the nightmare of Europe. Her younger sister, Sheina, and her husband, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Horenstein, were still trapped in Poland when the United States declared war on Japan in December, 1941. All contact with them was lost. It was not until after the war that she and her family learned for certain that the Horensteins had all perished in the gas chambers of Treblinka.
