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Rabbi Zusha Wilmowsky - (known as "The Partisan" 3rd of Nissan 5685 - 16th of Tishrei 5747) - was one of the leading Chabad activists, from 1949 when he established the Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva in Lod until his passing on Sukkot 5747.

The Rebbe called Rabbi Zusha Wilmowsky - "Mein Partizan" (my partisan). Rabbi Zusha indeed worked like a partisan: he operated efficiently and wisely to establish institutions - Tomchei Tmimim Lod, the Ohalei Yosef Yitzchak network and N'shei Chabad, while simultaneously working in any required method, with sophistication and sometimes in an independent style, anywhere and anytime needed, checking and reporting to the Rebbe, operating with tactics and fearless of anyone, all to bring satisfaction to the Rebbe. He served as secretary of the Kfar Chabad committee and inspector of Chabad institutions.

== Life History ==

==== His Youth ====
Rabbi Zusha Wilmowsky was born on the 4th of Nissan 5682, to his father Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak and his mother Rebbetzin Mariesha (Miriam). His father served as rabbi of Izyum, Russia, and in 1924, when R' Zusha was two years old, the family moved to Poland, where his father was appointed as rabbi and head of the rabbinical court in Seltz.

In his youth, he studied in yeshivas in his area of residence. With the outbreak of [[World War II]], when the Soviet Union conquered the region, the yeshivas throughout the country were closed, and he smuggled himself across the border to Lithuania, which was then under independent government. There he studied at the Baranovitch Yeshiva under the leadership of Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman. In the yeshiva, he studied with Rabbi David Gershowitz as his study partner. The paths of the good friends met and parted several times until they both settled in Kfar Chabad. When the Germans conquered Lithuania, the yeshiva wandered from place to place until it reached the town of Samilishok, where the students were hosted in the homes of the town's Jews. R' Zusha found lodging in the home of a family from the Jewish community. After some time, information reached R' Zusha that the Nazis were approaching the city. R' Zusha ensured this information reached all the town's Jews and then fled himself, thus saving many.

==== Partisan ====
During the war, he wandered to Belarus, where he was put into the Lida ghetto by the Nazis, and after some time was transferred to a nearby labor camp. In the camp, he met his friend R' David Gershowitz, and together they managed to escape from the camp and joined the partisan unit under the command of Commander Tuvia Bielski. The Bielski unit was part of the partisan network in Belarus and included many families because Bielski's goal was saving lives.

R' Zusha participated in defense operations and food raids and would even enter the ghetto to smuggle out Jews and bring them to the forest to Bielski's unit. Even the non-believing fighters who were educated in communism showed respect and admiration for young Zusha, who endeared himself to everyone. During his time with the partisans, he maintained an Orthodox Jewish lifestyle with great self-sacrifice. From the war, R' Zusha emerged with gunshot wounds in his legs, but never told how he was wounded.

==== Post war ====
After he arrived at the Cremona displaced persons camp in Italy, where he befriended Rabbi Shneur Zalman Levin. Together they established a synagogue in the camp for the many refugees, and R' Zalman was the one who brought him close to Chabad Chassidism.

After immigrating to [[Eretz Yisroel|Israel]] on the 23rd of Adar II 5706, R' Zusha entered to study at the Achei Tmimim Yeshiva in Tel Aviv at age 25, which was considered very old compared to the other students in the yeshiva, and began studying Chassidus in an organized manner under the guidance of Rabbi Chaim Shaul Brook. In those days, he received an instruction from [[The Rebbe Rayatz|the Previous Rebbe]] to study shechita (ritual slaughter), after he described to the Rebbe all the tribulations he had endured during the war years.

In 1948, when Rabbi Moshe Gurary from Tel Aviv was staying at 770, he was called to the Rebbe's son-in-law - the Rebbe, who showed him a note in his father-in-law's (the Previous Rebbe's) handwriting: "Please inquire about the nature of the young man Z.W." R' Moshe told all he knew about R' Zusha. Immediately after his words, the Rebbe went up to the Previous Rebbe's apartment.

While still single, he established Tomchei Tmimim Lod, the Ohalei Yosef Yitzchak network, and N'shei Chabad, as detailed below.

He built his home with Mrs. Feiga of the Poker family, and the Rebbe wrote that it would be preferable for them to establish their residence in Kfar Chabad, and indeed after the wedding they settled in Kfar Chabad.

== Public Activism ==

==== Establishing Tomchei Tmimim Lod ====
At the beginning of Shevat 5709, thirteen Chabad families settled at the edge of Lod city, near the train station, in a neighborhood abandoned by Arabs during the War of Independence. R' Zusha understood that they must establish a yeshiva for the children of these families and for other Chabad Chassidic families who had recently immigrated from Europe. One day he came to Lod and saw a three-story building that had previously served as a small hotel. He entered the building, locked the main door with a lock, and established a fact - here would be the "Tomchei Tmimim" Yeshiva.

Thus was founded the central "Tomchei Tmimim" Yeshiva in Lod, which R' Zusha managed from its establishment under the auspices of Agudas Chassidei Chabad in Israel under the leadership of Rabbi Eliezer Karasik and according to the instructions of the Previous Rebbe and the Rebbe. R' Zusha Wilmowsky played an important role in bringing Yemenite immigrant children closer to Chabad and integrating them into the Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva in Lod.

R' Zusha devoted his physical and spiritual energies to bringing students, absorbing them, and maintaining the yeshiva. He took responsibility for the yeshiva's existence upon his shoulders and cared for the students' physical and spiritual welfare. During that period, he frequently visited synagogues throughout the Holy Land and raised donations for the yeshiva's maintenance and existence through his inspiring speeches.

==== Founding the Ohalei Yosef Yitzchak Network ====
R' Zusha worked among the new immigrants and sought to establish an institution that would absorb immigrant children. He wrote about this to the Rebbe, and on the 5th of Tammuz 5711, the Rebbe responded to his proposal - with a different proposal to establish the "Ohalei Yosef Yitzchak Network in the Holy Land":

"It would be worthwhile for him to investigate the possibility of establishing there (in the Holy Land) institutions that would join the educational institutions network established in Morocco and called after the Previous Rebbe - Ohalei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch, which includes institutions from basic alphabet learning to teachers' and rabbis' seminary."

The Rebbe appreciated his blessed and energetic activity throughout the years. But veteran activists were concerned about a young bachelor standing at the head of new institutions that were just being established, despite Chabad Chassidim in the Holy Land being a relatively small community and the financial situation being difficult. However, the Rebbe wrote to one of the activists that R' Zusha apparently has energy and maintains correspondence with the Rebbe, and proposals have already been received from him about establishing Ohalei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch institutions. In the continuation of the letter, the Rebbe writes that it would be worthwhile to utilize his great energy.

R' Zusha set to work, receiving instructions from the Rebbe from time to time on how to manage the institution being established. A few months after the instruction to establish the network arrived, four departments were opened where children were taught Torah in the afternoon hours.

The Rebbe firmly demanded from all Chabad activists, including R' Zusha, to obtain government approval to associate the network's institutions with the "non-stream stream." In those days, there were schools belonging to the state stream and to the state-religious stream, and the Rebbe requested that Chabad schools be recognized as a non-stream stream. However, in the relevant offices, they rejected the idea, until R' Zusha, with great sophistication, managed to obtain the appropriate approvals. Thus, the way was paved for establishing the network's schools, and at the opening of the 5713 school year, the network's four departments became proper schools, and in the following years, dozens of schools and kindergartens were established throughout the Holy Land.

In the initial period, R' Zusha was the network's director, until Rabbi David Chanzin was appointed to the position, while R' Zusha continued to serve as a member of the network's management.

==== Founding N'shei Chabad ====
The Rebbe instructed R' Zusha to work on establishing the N'shei Chabad organization in the Holy Land.

The Rebbe sent R' Zusha detailed instructions regarding N'shei Chabad's activities and also instructed to publicize the activities appropriately.

In the following period, the Rebbe instructed him that women should manage the organization, and R' Zusha transferred the management to Rebbetzin Devorah Ashkenazi.

==== Distributing Kehot Publications ====
With the Rebbe's encouragement, he distributed Chassidic books on behalf of the Central Organization for Jewish Education Israel Branch.

Thousands of Chassidic books arrived from Kehot in New York to Kfar Chabad and were under the responsibility of the Central Organization for Jewish Education Israel Branch, managed by Rabbi Avraham Paris. Notices were published that books were available for sale, but purchases were few, and the Rebbe encouraged and urged to engage in distributing the books, until R' Zusha began distributing the Chassidic books in yeshivas of all groups and communities throughout the Holy Land.

He was among the prominent activists within the framework of Tzeirei Agudas Chabad's work, all under the Rebbe's guidance and encouragement.

==== Secretary of Kfar Chabad Committee ====
In Tishrei 5721, during his first visit to the Rebbe, he entered for a private audience and told about his public work in the network's institutions and involvement in developing Kfar Chabad and its institutions, and asked the Rebbe about his future path. The Rebbe instructed him to invest himself in two main matters, the first being the position of secretary of the Kfar Chabad committee. Shortly after returning from 770, he was appointed secretary of the Kfar Chabad committee, thus fulfilling the Rebbe's instruction. The second matter in which he invested himself was the network.

He received many instructions from the Rebbe regarding Kfar Chabad, its institutions, and the conduct of the committee and residents. For example - R' Zusha was the one who received the well-known instruction not to build private houses taller than two stories.

R' Zusha worked for the development and expansion of Kfar Chabad and its institutions, according to instructions received from the Rebbe and as he explained in an interview with Kol Israel: "Generally, all the matters you see in the village are according to the Rebbe's instructions. But sometimes there were proposals from the residents and the Rebbe agreed to them. The meaning is: everything goes through the Rebbe, either directly - the Rebbe says to do something, or it comes on the initiative of the participants and they ask the Rebbe's opinion and the Rebbe gives his consent. In any case, without the Rebbe's consent - there is no such thing. Not only in Kfar Chabad, everywhere Chabad Chassidim are - without the Rebbe's consent there is no such thing."

He worked extensively to establish Kfar Chabad B and including the Beis Rivka institutions. About R' Zusha's meetings with public figures in the context of advocacy for establishing Kfar Chabad B, the director of Beis Rivka, Rabbi Shmuel Chefer, wrote in the book "The Rebbe's Engine."

== 'Inspector' ==
Starting from late 5711, the Rebbe requested R' Zusha the Partisan to write about what was happening in Chabad institutions in the Holy Land down to the finest details. In the many letters he received from the Rebbe, there appears again and again a request and demand to write extensively, especially praising him for writing about the Kfar Chabad settlement. For more than 25 years, R' Zusha reported to the Rebbe about everything he saw or heard happening in the Holy Land, all according to the Rebbe's instructions as mentioned above. For many years, R' Zusha would travel throughout the country, length and breadth, due to his many roles, and what he would see and hear - he would report.

==== Official Inspector ====
This situation strengthened after Shevat 5737, during a gathering of Chabad Chassidim organized by the Chabad Rabbinical Court in Israel, when he was appointed as an official 'inspector,' and thus began organized journeys throughout the country, aiming to reach every place where Chabad Chassidim lived, and would report to the Rebbe about what was happening.

Everywhere, R' Zusha would encourage those who needed it, push for action those who needed it, and in his free hours would sit by himself and write in large and dense script on large sheets of paper. When asked what he was writing, he would answer: "Military secret!" There were those who then commented about him that he was the Rebbe-Chief of Staff's "spy," and the reports were military intelligence reports in every sense.

==== The Rebbe and R' Zusha's Reports ====
R' Zusha would write almost daily letters and reports to the Rebbe, which brought great satisfaction to the Rebbe, because the Rebbe had asked several important activists to write to him about what was happening in the Holy Land, so that he would feel as if he were there, and the only one who succeeded in doing this was R' Zusha. The Rebbe's secretary Rabbi Binyamin Klein related: "When several days passed and no letter arrived from R' Zusha, the Rebbe would inquire with the secretaries what happened that he hadn't written a letter."

== Supporting the Shluchim ==
"R' Zusha would care for every shliach (emissary), everywhere in Israel, even if they lived in a remote corner. When a shliach succeeded in establishing something, or accomplishing something, small or large, he would find it appropriate to encourage them. The encouragement wasn't expressed only in good words or a pat on the shoulder, but in that R' Zusha would trouble himself to the shliach's city and home, even if it was at the edge of the country, and would encourage and motivate them in their continued work." R' Zusha was naturally and almost automatically a board member of most or all Chabad institutions and enterprises and always strived to create connections with every Chabad activist, with every Chabad house, with every Chabad institution, with every Tzeirei Chabad branch to encourage, strengthen, motivate, and assist and help wherever he went and brought with him the Chassidic fragrance of vitality and enthusiasm.

== Appointment of City Rabbis ==
The Rebbe instructed Chabad activists to assist in appointing Chabad rabbis to positions as city rabbis. Those who worked and succeeded in this matter were R' Shlomo Maidanchik and R' Zusha, who worked in full coordination. They traveled to different cities and spoke with activists, synagogue administrators, and local mayors, so that they would work toward the appointment of the rabbi who generally also served as a shliach in his city. Usually, after their work was crowned with success and the selection was accepted, they continued to assist the new and young rabbi.

A special relationship existed between R' Zusha and Rabbi Shlomo Goren, who was then the Chief Rabbi of Israel; thus R' Zusha succeeded in obtaining 'kosher' certification for city rabbis for many rabbis, a process that usually took many years].

R' Zusha accompanied and assisted the Rebbe's shluchim to Eretz HaKodesh and groups of Temimim shluchim who would arrive in Eretz HaKodesh or pass through Eretz HaKodesh.

== Distribution of the Rebbe's Matzot ==
Every year on Passover eve, he would travel to distribute the matzot that the Rebbe sent to the Holy Land among the shluchim. Even in his later years, he refrained from giving the matzot to the shluchim near

== Member of the Umbrella Organization ==
R' Zusha served as a board member of the umbrella organization of Chabad institutions. The organization, in which the heads of Chabad activists in the Holy Land were members, was established by the Rebbe in 5733 and was effectively the body that directed and coordinated all Chabad institutional activities in the Holy Land, with its areas of activity including all branches of Chabad public activism. The umbrella organization dealt with, among other things, coordination between institutions, representation to the government for obtaining budgets and more, advocacy for appointing Chabad rabbis to neighborhood and city rabbinical positions, deciding and coordinating on establishing new institutions, establishing synagogues and Chabad houses, connection with various Haredi groups, organizing national events, and more.

The board members of the umbrella organization were the heads of Chabad's central institutions in Israel in those days: Rabbi Efraim Wolff as director of the central Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva, Rabbi Shlomo Maidanchik as chairman of the Kfar Chabad committee, Rabbi Aryeh Leib Kaplan as shliach to Safed and director of Chabad institutions in the city, Rabbi Shmuel Chefer as director of Beit Rivka Kfar Chabad. These four activists would gather at regular times, usually in the office of Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva Lod, and discuss matters on the agenda.

On the 18th of Tevet 5742, R' Zusha Wilmowsky was added to the organization's management, and this was after receiving an answer from the Rebbe that he could work part-time in the umbrella organization (meaning in a part-time position, while also working in other roles). R' Zusha Wilmowsky's role in the umbrella organization was coordination between the organization and Chabad institutions in the Holy Land.

== The Rebbe's Partisan ==
R' Zusha was a symbol of hiskashrus (connection) to the Rebbe, and all his conversations and activities revolved around one topic: how to carry out the Rebbe's instructions. As he explained in an interview with Kol Yisrael radio:

"I believe with complete emunah that my neshamah that descended to this world cannot fulfill its shlichus in this world without the Rebbe's instructions. The shoresh haneshamah of every chassid is connected to the Rebbe - what the Rebbe tells him, he needs to fulfill, and that is his neshamah's shlichus."

== Bringing Joy at Simchas Beis Hashoeva ==
For many years, R' Zusha made sure to come to the Rebbe every Tishrei, until he became an integral part of the atmosphere. One year, R' Zusha wrote to the Rebbe that the abundant work during Tishrei infused him with special chayus for the entire year. He effectively served as the head of the first group from Eretz Hakodesh that came to the Rebbe. After every tefillah, he would start a joyous niggun, and the Rebbe would encourage him. When the Rebbe didn't see him, he would search for him, find him, and then encourage him to start a niggun. At farbrengens, he would stand behind the Rebbe and would encourage and direct the chassidim's singing. He was also in charge of shiurim for guests, and in his later years became an inseparable part of Simchas Beis Hashoeva, standing on a tall barrel, playing the flute and bringing joy to the participants.

== First Visit to the Rebbe ==
He first came to the Rebbe before Tishrei 1960. On the Shabbos before Rosh Hashanah, during the farbrengen with a crowd of chassidim present, the Rebbe referred to R' Zusha by his earlier title "Partisan," explaining the avodah of a partisan:<blockquote>''"There is a Yid here called Zusha Wilimovsky, and he is a partisan. A partisan's approach is that he doesn't look at big things or small things, but carries out matters of the monarchy. Since there are still 20 or 21 things that need to be done before Moshiach comes, we need to work in a partisan way. Although it's not organized, it's according to the kavannah."''</blockquote>At that farbrengen, the Rebbe spoke about the importance of Torah study in general, and particularly by the guests who came to 770. In this context, the Rebbe asked R' Zusha if he agreed to be responsible for organizing shiurim for the guests. R' Zusha responded affirmatively.

The Rebbe gave R' Zusha his becher, and R' Zusha drank the wine that was in the becher and returned it to the Rebbe. Afterwards, the Rebbe gave him the plate of mezonos that was placed before him, and immediately the chassidim grabbed all the mezonos. R' Zusha looked at the Rebbe, not knowing how to act. The Rebbe looked right and left, and after a few seconds, all the mezonos returned to the plate. When R' Zusha began walking between the benches towards his regular place, the Rebbe told him: "Walk straight, I'm watching over you." This was the first time the Rebbe called him partisan. Over the years, the Rebbe continued to call him 'the Partisan' and 'mein partisan' [my partisan]. Sometimes when the Rebbe didn't see R' Zusha at farbrengens, the Rebbe would ask "Vu iz mein partisan?" [Where is my partisan?] This title stuck with him, and the chassidim also called him this verbally and in writing: the Partisan.

This partisan way was how he operated all the time. He had no funding sources, employees, or personal assistants, but he worked with all his energy, wherever he was needed, and was present wherever he knew he was needed - all with simplicity, without holding an official position and without receiving a salary. In many places, he planted seeds and let others continue to tend to the plants that would grow. This was true with the yeshiva in Lod, through the Reshet, and culminating in establishing and developing Kfar Chabad, and his legendary help to the Rebbe's shluchim wherever they were.

The middah of simcha was an inseparable part of him. He always had a bottle of mashke in hand, and he danced at every opportunity. Before flights and during flights, at farbrengens and at hachnosas orchim meals, at farbrengens he stood behind the Rebbe encouraging and directing the singing; during kos shel bracha distribution he would dance in place for long hours, clapping hands vigorously and encouraging the surrounding simcha with characteristic hand movements.

== Annual Visits to the Rebbe ==
For many years, R' Zusha made sure to visit the Rebbe during the month of Tishrei, until he became an integral part of the atmosphere. In one of the years, R' Zusha wrote to the Rebbe that the extensive work during Tishrei infused him with special vitality for the entire year. He effectively served as the head of the first group from the Holy Land to visit the Rebbe. After every prayer, he would begin a joyous tune, and the Rebbe would encourage him. When the Rebbe didn't see him, he would search for him and find him and then encourage him to start a tune. During farbrengens (Chassidic gatherings), he stood behind the Rebbe, encouraging and directing the Chassidim's singing; he was also in charge of organizing classes for visitors.

== Moshiach Activities ==
R' Zusha would often express himself toward the Rebbe in terms of royalty, and in his letters to the Rebbe would begin "To His Holy Honor, the Rebbe King Moshiach Shlita."
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On the 10th of Shevat 5730, before the completion ceremony of the Torah scroll for Moshiach, he drafted a special letter on which he had the great Chassidim sign, in which he wrote:<blockquote>"His Holy Honor, the King Moshiach Shlita

Since we have merited the completion of the Torah scroll to receive Moshiach our righteous one, and the Rebbe is from the house of David and contemplates Torah and compels all Israel to strengthen its maintenance and fights the wars of God and succeeds, and as we have already heard from his holy mouth that all deadlines have passed and there is no end to the troubles that the Jewish people suffer. Please have mercy and come immediately to redeem us from the bitter exile and lead us upright to our land with kindness and mercy."</blockquote>

== Final Days ==
On Saturday night, the second night of Sukkot 5747, R' Zusha passed away in the Sukkah of the Hachnosas Orchim (hospitality center) near 770, after his early return from Simchat Beit HaShoeva. Regarding his place of passing, the Chassidim recalled his comment about Rabbi Shmaryahu Gurary who passed away inside the synagogue during Kol Nidrei at 770, near the Rebbe: "I won't be as pampered as him... I'll be content with the royal courtyard." Interestingly, in his final days, on the eve of Sukkot, R' Zusha the Partisan passed by the Rebbe with the Four Species he received from the Rebbe, and the Rebbe - despite his custom to bless everyone (in Yiddish) "that you should continue all the drawing downs for the entire year" - ignored him and didn't bless him at all, and indeed he did not merit to bless the Four Species that year!

== Commemoration ==

* The Partisan - Collection of Articles - published after his passing by the Ohalei Yosef Yitzchak network, edited by Rabbi Uri Ben Shachar.
* In 5781, a comic book 'Beyond Enemy Lines' was published by Orot Publishing, depicting R' Zusha the Partisan's activities during the partisan period.
* Articles published in Chabad journals and Chabad media outlets, as well as family mementos published over the years, included stories and letters related to his history and public service.

== The Partisan Book ==
In 5765 (2005), a book chronicling his life story was published, edited by Rabbi Shneur Zalman Berger and published by Rabbi Levi Wilmowsky, Rabbi Zusha's son.

The book contains 384 pages with descriptions and memories alongside letters, responses from private audiences, documents, and hundreds of photographs, many of which were published for the first time in this book. The book has been released in two editions so far.

The book contains detailed descriptions including extensive material published for the first time about his early path, life stations, and roles:

* Partisan in the Bielski unit during the Holocaust period
* Became close to Chabad in the DP camps through Rabbi Shneur Zalman Levin
* Founder and director of Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva in Lod
* Founder and director of the Oholi Yosef Yitzchak network in the Holy Land
* Founder and director of the Nshei U'Bnos Chabad organization
* Distributor of Chabad books on behalf of the Center for Education, Holy Land branch
* Secretary of the Kfar Chabad committee
* Member of the 71 Institutions committee
* Chabad inspector in the Holy Land
* Joint activism with Rabbi Yona Eidelkop
* Advocacy for the release of Shalom Starks who was arrested regarding the Yossele Schumacher affair
* Establishment of Beit Shazar
* Advocacy for the appointment of Chabad rabbis as neighborhood and city rabbis in the Holy Land
* Encouraged singing and joy at 770
* His passing in the guests' sukkah in the 770 courtyard
* Lived with Moshiach
* Letters from the Previous Rebbe to Rabbi Zusha Wilmowsky
* Letters from the Rebbe to Rabbi Zusha Wilmowsky

==== Rabbi Zusha's Plan to Publish His Life Story ====
Rabbi Zusha considered publishing a book about the period of self-sacrifice during the Holocaust and his multifaceted activities following the Rebbe's instructions to serve as an example for young people. He outlined his plan to the Rebbe:

"For several years, people have been encouraging me to write a book about my life experiences and about matters I know that were done in various fields. Such as:

* a) From the time of war and the partisans, concentration and labor camps, and the self-sacrifice that existed then in connection with this.
* b) Organization and development of Chabad matters in the Holy Land
* c) Various matters related to this and various instructions.

I thought to myself that since I need to invest great effort, exertion and organization, as well as recall everything, and invest funds, and there isn't time and ability for such a thing, especially since there is actual work according to the needs of the hour and that the Rebbe shlita encourages, etc., to act and activate others. On the other hand, since currently we can and there are people who can clarify these matters, we should utilize the time. And perhaps there will also be benefit for the public in this, so I said to myself that I will clarify for myself the essence of the matter with the Rebbe shlita."

==== The Partisan in English ====
In 5779 (2019), the Partisan book was published in English translation by his granddaughter Chaya Wilmowsky. The book contains 335 pages, including memories, holy letters, documents, and photographs.

== Family ==
* His wife, Feiga - passed away on 10th Sivan 5758
* His son R' Yaakov Wilmowsky
* His son R' [[Reb Yosef Yitzchak Wilmowsky|Yosef Yitzchak Wilmowsky]] - formerly of the staff at the central Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva - 770, and mashpia at the Getzel Shul synagogue
* His son R' Levi Wilmowsky - Kfar Chabad. CEO of Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva Migdal HaEmek
* His daughter Mrs. Miriam, wife of R' Gershon Paris z"l, Lod

== External Links ==

* The Rebbe's letters to R' Zusha Wilmowsky
* R' Zusha Mesameach. Photo gallery
* '''Partisan on a Mission to Bring the Geulah''' - Chapter from the book "The Partisan" on the website
* The Admor of Nadvorna tells about 'The Partisan' on the website
* Article about R' Zusha in Beit Moshiach (link not active, 21 Shevat 5785 / 2025)
* The Partisan involved in Shalom Starkss' pardon to bring nachas ruach to the Rebbe (link not active, 3 Sivan 5782 / 2022)
* Preventing the closure of Chabad school in Nes Tziona (link not active, 21 Shevat 5785 / 2025)
* Initiator of the Shluchim conventions
* HaTzofeh on the book "The Partisan"
* The Partisan
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