Yehoshua Yeshaya Neuwirth was born in Berlin , Germany . His father Aharon served as rabbi in a number of German communities . After '' Kristallnacht '' , he travelled to Belgium on the '' Kindertransport '' ( children 's convoy ) but was rejoined by his parents in 1939 . They settled in Amsterdam , The Netherlands . During the Second World War , the family lived in hiding , supported by the Resistance . During this time , Neuwirth had little access to rabbinic literature , apart from the volume of the popular work '' Mishnah Berurah '' that deals with the Shabbat laws
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Yehoshua Neuwirth