Halberstam of Bebow. He writes: "Such a gigantic task can be trusted only to a wellknown Rabbinical personality who has already undertaken similar rescue efforts with success. I lived as a refugee in Rumania and was an eyewitness to the work done by Rabbi Rubin in organizing a rescue committee to save 250.000 Jews who had been driven to Transniestra to die there of hunger and disease. He set up community kitchens. hospitals. and Talmud Torahs. At a time when it was worth a death penalty to hide a refugee Jew in ones home. Rabbi Rubin threw open his 9room apartment and hid hundreds of Jews there. Not only did he do this for 4 years. but was instrumental in getting other Jews to follow his lead." Rabbi Rubin and his colleagues are all revered. learned. respected. brave gentlemen.