Continuity in Crisis - The Story of Rabbi Sinai Adler

Rabbi Sinai Adler was born in Prague in 1928 to his father Rabbi Shimon Adler (of the town of Dobra Voda), and mother Raisel (of Karlsruhe, Germany). The Adler family was the only Jewish family in the town. His father had a Doctorate degree, and served as rabbi in various communities in Czechoslovakia. Rabbi Sinai Adler was their third child and youngest boy. When he was ten years old, Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Germans. In February 1943, Rabbi Adler was deported with his parents to the Theresienstadt ghetto, and in May 1944 the family was deported from there to the family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Six months later, during the liquidation of the family camp, his parents were murdered, and he was sent to the sub-camp of Plawy. in January 1945, following the Red Army advances towards the region, he was sent together with the rest of the camp prisoners on a death march, which ended at the Mauthausen camp in Austria. On May 4, 1945 he was liberated at Gunskirchen, one year exactly after undergoing the selection process at Auschwitz.
Rabbi Adler immigrated to Israel, studying at the Hebron Yeshiva and at the Beit Zvul Kollel. In 1962 he was appointed as the first Rabbi of the city of Ashdod. Rabbi Adler serves as a rabbi and as a Jewish legal scholar. He has written reference and contemplative books, as well as books pertaining to his life during the Holocaust.