Editing The Holocaust (section)

==== The Rescue ====
At Agudas Chasidei Chabad in the United States, continuous creative and sophisticated attempts were made to smuggle the Rebbe Rayatz out of Poland. Members of Agudas Chasidei Chabad established contact with officials in the American government who approached the head of German military intelligence, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, who worked toward smuggling out the Rebbe Rayatz. Despite the dangerous situation, the Rebbe Rayatz requested that twenty additional people, besides his family members, leave with him.

On the 2nd of Teves 5700 (December 1939), the Rebbe Rayatz and his family were smuggled out of Poland, together with twenty Jews, through Berlin to Riga. After three days, on the 5th of Teves, they arrived in Riga, and on the 24th of Adar 5700 (March 1940), they left Riga for Stockholm (Sweden).

On the 25th of Adar 5700, they traveled from Stockholm by train to the city of Gothenburg, from where they sailed on the ship "Drottningholm" to the United States, where the Rebbe received an impressive and massive welcome reception, organized by Chabad chassidim in Stockholm led by Rabbi Yaakov Yisroel Zuber.