The pictured pair of boots may seem like just an old worn out pair of footwear, but they’re anything but ordinary.
This pair of boots was given to Chaya Muller (Planzer) by a Nazi in Auschwitz during the war in 1945, when she was just four years old.
It’s these boots Chaya wore until she was liberated in 1945, and with which she walked out of the death camp to freedom. She was one of the youngest Holocaust survivors. In the attached picture, a post-war young Chaya can be seen wearing the boots.
Chaya eventually married, and built a Toradig family, together with her husband Yb”l Reb Shraga Feivel. She was Niftar last week at the age of 79.
During the Shiva in Lakewood, these boots sat on a table, a testament to a world that was and the Gehenom she endured.
May she be a Melitzah Yesharah for her family and Klal Yisroel.
Thisvis beyond amazing. I’m gonna speak about this over Pesach, IYH, Bl”n. This is like Pharoh raising Moshe Rabbeinu in his OWN HOUSE. This is similar. If Hshem wants you to survive, He can have ur biggest enemy, the biggest Rasha, the nazis, Ymshv”z, give you his shoes to survive. Gevaldig.
I went to the Shiva of this Isha Chashuva. She came out of Auschwitz at 4 years old. Hello ? FOUR YEARS OLD. Now someone explain that to me. That was a total Neis Niglah. Full Stop. That alone is the biggest Emunah booster of our generation. Period.