Group of Six Original Photographs documenting the reception for Grand Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneerson of Lubavitch (the “Friediker Rebbe”) in Lakewood, New Jersey on the 8th Nissan, 1940. Hosted by Nissan Waksman, Rabbi of Lakewood

These photographs were among the first taken of the Lubavitcher Rebbe after his arrival in the United States. One notes that the photographs show the late Sholom Ber Gurary, Rabbi Schneerson’s only grandson, in close proximity to his grandfather (censored from recent versions). Through diplomatic intervention, Rabbi J.I. Schneerson was rescued from Nazi-occupied Warsaw, and via a most circuitous route, finally disembarked in New York harbor on March 19, 1940. He died in 1950 aged 70.