aktion of 1 August 1942. When the Nazis stormed his house with the intention of deporting its residents to the Chelmno extermination camp, the Rebbe refused to leave, saying, "I know you've come to kill me. I prefer to die here in my house and not in a car filled with poison gas". He then recited the Shema Yisrael and was shot in the head when he reached the last word, Echad (One). His family members were shot together with him. They were buried in a mass grave in Warsaw's main cemetery. With the Rebbe's death, the father-to-son lineage of Radomsker rebbes came to an end. The Rebbe's brother, Rabbi Elimelech Aryeh Hakohen Rabinowicz, died in the Mauthausen concentration camp. In 1965, however, a descendant of the Radomsker dynasty, Rabbi Menachem Shlomo Bornsztain of Sochatchov (his grandfather, the second Sochatchover Rebbe, Rabbi Shmuel Bornsztain, married the granddaughter of the first Radomsker Rebbe, Shlomo Rabinowicz) was asked by the Radomsker Hasidim who had survived the Holocaust to become their Rebbe as well. After consulting with leading rabbis, Bornsztain officially became known as the Sochatchover-Radomsker Rebbe. After Bornsztain's death, his eldest son Rabbi Shmuel Bornsztain, became sixth Sochatchover Rebbe, and another son, Avrohom Nosson Bornsztain, was appointed as Rav of the Radomsker Shul in Bnei Brak. After the war, a Polish-born American rabbi named Chaskel Besser, whose father had been an advisor to the Radomsker Rebbe, compiled the Torah teachings of Rabbi Shlomo Chanoch Rabinowicz and his son-in-law, Rabbi David Moshe Rabinowicz, into the sefer Shivchei Kohen ("Praise of the Priest"). Rebbes of Radomsk Shlomo Hakohen Rabinowicz, the Tiferes Shlomo (1801–1866) Avraham Yissachar Dov Hakohen Rabinowicz, the Chesed LeAvraham (1843–1892) Yechezkel Hakohen Rabinowicz, the Kenesses Yechezkel (1862–1910) Shlomo Chanoch Hakohen Rabinowicz, the Shivchei Kohen (1882–1942) Menachem Shlomo Bornsztain, Sochatchover-Radomsker Rebbe (1934–1969) References External links 1933 photo of Rabbi Shlomo Chanoch Rabinowicz walking with his Hasidim and son-in-law, Rabbi David Moshe Rabinowicz, in Kretznia Rebbes of Radomsk Polish Orthodox rabbis 20th-century Polish rabbis People from Radomsko People from Sosnowiec People who died in the Warsaw Ghetto 1882 births 1942 deaths Polish civilians killed in World War II