Person · 5664–5705 AM · 1904 CE — 1945 CE
Rabbi Chaim Menachem David Horowitz, the last rebbe of Dzikov רבי חיים מנחם דוד הורוויץ מדזיקוב
the fifth and last rebbe of Dzikov; he perished in the Shoah
The last to hold the Dzikow seat: he was appointed rabbi in 1924, before he was twenty; his father was Rabbi Alter Yechezkel Eliyahu.
In the war he passed through the Plaszow camp. He died on 23 Tishrei 1944, on Simchat Torah, worn out by forced labour. Where exactly this happened the sources tell differently: some name Mauthausen, others Theresienstadt; we make no choice between them.
The Dzikov house survived through his brother Rabbi Yehuda, who after the war gathered it in Erets Yisrael, and later in London.
On the timeline
5537 · 1777 CEThe courts of Galicia, Bukovina and Hungary: Ruzhin, Belz, Sanz, Satmar5699 · 1939 CEThe Shoah: the Destruction of European Jewry5699 · 1939 CEThe Second World War
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- The register of the Dzikov house — the appointment in 1924 and the death on 23 Tishrei 1944
- Pinkas ha-Kehillot Polin, the volume on Tarnobrzeg and Dzikow — the second reading of the place of death—Theresienstadt
Basis: documents and evidence.