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August 22, 2019
When the Ukrainian KGB Apologized for the Persecution of a Rabbi
The arrest records of Levi Yitzḥak Schneerson.
In early August 1991—just a few weeks before the abortive coup that ultimately led to the Soviet Union’s collapse—a delegation of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis arrived in Moscow, where they were told by the Ukrainian branch of the KGB that it wished to give them the arrest records of Rabbi Levi Yitzḥak Schneerson (1878-1944). Schneerson’s son, Menachem Mendel, was at the time of the visit the Lubavitcher rebbe; so the delegates traveled to Kiev to learn more. Dovid Margolin writes:
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When the Ukrainian KGB Apologized for the Persecution of a Rabbi
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