that were telegraphed to Eastern Europe. With the increasingly desperate race against time, the Vaad, under Silver turned to all channels, whether legal or not, to save as many lives as possible by bringing Jews to the US, Canada and Palestine. During World War II, a Vaad representative in Switzerland even negotiated with the SS, offering to ransom concentration camp prisoners for cash and tractors - talks that freed hundreds from Bergen-Belsen and other death camps. In October 1943, as the scale of Nazi atrocities was becoming clearer, Silver helped organise and lead a mass rally of more than 400 rabbis in Washington, D.C. to press for more decisive action by the US government to save European Jews. The rabbis' march was organized by Hillel Kook's "Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe". Post-World War II In 1949 Silver founded the Chofetz Chaim Day School (also known as the Cincinnati Hebrew Day School.) He died in 1968, at the age of 85 or 86. He was interred at Washington Cemetery (Knesseth Israel) in Cincinnati. He had been Rabbi of the Kneseth Israel Congregation in Cincinnati for nearly 40 years. He authored the Sefer titled Anfe Erez. Present rabbi of Kneseth Israel (now Congregation Zichron Eliezer) is Rabbi Avrohom Weinrib. Noteworthy Students One of his star students was Rabbi Shlomo Wahrman, who came from Leipzig for fifteen years and went on to becoming principal and Rosh Yeshiva of the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County. Wahrman attributes his success to Silver's insistence and encouragement to hone his writing skills and record his copious chidushei Torah. Wahrman writes in the short biography he published on Silver:I remember at times he screamed at me for lack of understanding-however, even then I sensed his great love and concern for me and not the slightest hint of hatred. Rabbi Silver was a man whose very essence was giving to others - his ahavas yisroel (love for his fellow Jew) knew no bounds…he saw every Jew as an extension of himself. Notes References External links He Saved Thousands, ou.org About Congregation Zichron Eliezer American Orthodox rabbis Leaders of Jewish organizations in the United States American Haredi rabbis The Holocaust and the United States 1882 births 1968 deaths People from Obeliai Lithuanian Haredi rabbis Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States Rabbis from Cincinnati American human rights activists