Following the Nazi Operation Barbarossa and the conquest of Lwów , he was interned in the Lwów Ghetto and was active in the local religious department . His parents were murder in Bełżec extermination camp in 1941 . Prior to his deportment to Janowska concentration camp in August 1942 , he managed to secure a hiding place for his three-year-old daughter . Deported to Janowska concentration camp , he escaped on 23 April 1943 and went into hiding on the ' Aryan ' side . Two months after the liquidation of the Lvov ghetto , in September 1943 Kahane and 15 other Jews sheltered in Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky 's home in Lvov . He survived the Holocaust in the General Government District of Galicia . After the Soviet takeover , in 1944 he joined the Polish People 's Army in the rank of Major , and appointed chief Rabbi in 1945 . Kahane protested against acts of antisemitism in Poland , including at the funeral of the victims of the Kielce pogrom . Following the liquidation of the Polish Army field rabbinate in 1949 , Kahane left the army and emigrated to Israel
Kielce pogrom
Kielce pogrom
David Kahane