The diary of Moshe Plinker

On Erev Pesach 1944, the Plinkers, having fled Amsterdam for Brussels, were turned in to the Nazis, arrested, and sent to Auschwitz. Unusually so, most of the family survived - all, except for Moshe, who died when he was 18. After the war, a diary that he kept while in hiding was published. And it was over Shavuot that he wondered what it meant to be “the Chosen People” ...

Rabbi Noam Himelstein studied in Yeshivat Har Etzion and served in the Tanks Corps of the IDF. He has taught in yeshiva high schools, post-high school women’s seminaries, and headed the Torah MiTzion Kollel in Melbourne, Australia.