Family History of

Rabbi David E. Lipman

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Table of Contents:  

1. Purim and the Theresienstadt Megillah (05/29//05)

2. GIs Remember - Eugene Lipman  (05/29//05)

3. The History of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

Also see:  

1. Case of Rabbi David E. Lipman

2. When A Family Member Molests: Reality, Conflict, and The Need For Support

3. The Awareness Center's Brochure  

4. Jewish Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
5. Spiritual Abuse
6. Rabbis Investigating Sex Crimes
7. Recidivism of Sex Offenders  (U.S. Department of Justice: Center for Sex Offender Management)
8. National Sex Offender Registry

9. Rabbis, Cantors and Other Trusted Officials

10. Background Information and The History of Rabbinical Ordinations

11. Offenders: Problems Our Parents Wouldn't Speak Of

12. Policies Addressing Victimization and Offenders

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At the end of World War II, Rabbi Lipman's father, Rabbi Eugene Lipman, was involved in liberating the Jewish population of Theresienstadt. Rabbi Leo Baeck had left about two weeks earlier. As the final Jews were getting into the Army trucks, one of them called, "Wait!" He hurried into one of the buildings, opened a secret door, and went down into a hidden basement, which they had used as a synagogue. He brought up with him a scroll. It was their Megillah. It was given to Rabbi Eugene Lipman on condition that it be used every year and not become merely a museum piece. He agreed. When he retired, he gave the Megillah to Rabbi David Lipman. Last year, Rabbi Lipman loaned the Megillah to the Living Holocaust Museum as a piece of its permanent collection, on condition that they return the Megillah to him in time to use it on Purim. We continue to us the Theresienstadt Megillah every year keeping the promise to the Jews of Theresienstadt.

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Rabbi Eugene Lipman, from Pittsburgh, volunteered as an Army chaplain in 1944, and reached Europe shortly before the end of World War II. Initially, he was assigned to the Rhineland, where lie met Jewish survivors returning from Buchenwald. He organized Jewish soldiers to provide food and clothing to the survivors, mid worked to help secure housing for them.

"Ill June 1945, my unit was transferred to Czechoslovakia. I worked with the Russians to transfer the last survivors remaining in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp to the U.S. Occupation Zone. I helped to organize transports of survivors from Prague through Pilsen to Austria and Italy on their way to Palestine (Israel). This work continued after my transfer to Regensburg in many displaced persons camps in North Bavaria.

Ill mid- 1946, 1 became a civilian, spent some months in the United States, then returned to Germany as liaison between the U.S. Army and the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the formal designation of the Haganah in Germany." (Haganah was the main fighting force in Palestine before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.)

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October 1959: Rabbi Eugene Lipman, Director, Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism (CSA), announces that Kivie Kaplan – President of the NAACP, an active member of the CSA, and Honorary Vice-Chair of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations – and his wife Emily have offered funds to the UAHC for the purchase of a building to house a center for social action in Washington, DC.

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Last Updated:  12/01/2004

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