(Daughter of R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the sixth Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, 1904-42).

SCHNEERSON, SHEINA (HORENSTEIN).

25th December

Lodz

1928

Autograph Letter Signed, written in Russian to Necha Rivkin. Writes warmly regarding her correspondent’s baby daughter, reminisces of their happy days in Rostov, discusses meeting family members. Signed “Sonia.”

The youngest of the three daughters of the Friediker Rebbe. Married to Menachem Mendel (“Menik”) Horenstein in 1932. Sheina and her husband were unable to flee Poland along with other members of the Schneerson family and were subsequently killed by the Nazis in the Treblinka extermination camp. She was particularly close to her sister Rebbetzin Chaya Moussia and is memorialized on the latter’s tombstone in the Old Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, New York.