In the 1950s , as the nascent State of Israel began building its population , the Klausenburger Rebbe &mdash; who had emigrated to the United States in 1947 after surviving The Holocaust and living in displaced persons camps &mdash; applied to the Israeli government for land on which to build a Hasidic settlement for Holocaust survivors . The Rebbe 's goals in founding Kiryat Sanz were to restore the former glory of Sanz Hasidism that had been wiped out by the Holocaust , and to establish a model of Torah living which would illuminate the surrounding secular environs
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Kiryat Sanz, Netanya