Editing Rabbi Yehoshua Lein (section)

== His Passing ==
In the summer months of 1941, the German army conquered Rudnia and concentrated the town's residents in a ghetto. At the end of the month of Tishrei 1942, they took everyone out to the tank trenches outside the city and shot them all to death.

Rav Laine went to the trenches with a Tehillim book in his hand, and continued murmuring the chapters of Tehillim until the final moment, passing away with the book in his hands. Together with him was murdered his second wife Rebbetzin Risa, his daughter Nessa and his son Peretz, as well as the town's rabbi, Rav Shimon Hoffman.

In 1964, at the initiative of the murder victims' descendants, all the bodies were transferred to a mass grave dug in the Jewish cemetery of the town. During the transfer, they were amazed to find Rav Laine's body completely intact, still holding the Tehillim book in his hand.