Petirah of Holocaust Survivor R’ Avraham Mordechai Grunwald Z”L

We regret to inform you of the petirah of R’ Avraham Mordechai Grunwald, a Holocaust survivor who resided in Lakewood. He was 95.

R’ Avraham Mordechai was known for his warmth and ability to converse with generations younger than his. He would often tell stories of the mesirus nefesh and nissim witnessed during the war, and would mark his liberation from the Nazi’s concentration camps each year, with the Tikkun he made in 2019 having been featured on TLS (see video below).

A talmid chochom who always had an interesting vort ready to share, R’ Avraham Mordechai rebuilt his life after the Holocaust in which he lost his parents and all his siblings, creating a new family of beautiful bnei torah and marbitzei torah.

The levaya will take place on Tuesday morning at 10 AM at the 7th Street Chapel, with kevurah in Eretz Yisroel.

Yehi Zichro Baruch.

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7 COMMENTS

  1. What an unbelievable loss. R’ Avraham Mordche was an unusual Talmud Chacham, who served Hashem B’simcha. He was a beloved neighbor and would always share Dirvrei Torah with me and my children. He would tell us stories about his life and his love for Eretz Yisrael. How he smuggled Tefilin into the concentration camp and never missed a day until he was transferred to a larger camp. How he was able to get food for himself and others in the camp. When he liberated and came to the United States, he and the Chevra Shas made a Siyum HaShas that Reb Moshe insisted on attending and came by train. My family and I would visit him and his special Aishes Chayil often and would make it part of our Purim routine to go to their home and sing with him. There is so much to say about him but the most significant accomplishment is despite everything he went through, he and his wife built and legacy of בנים ובני בנים עוסקים בתורה ובמצות. We have lost a giant! יהז״ב

  2. Wow wow wow!!!

    What an amazing story!!!

    To the Lakewood Scoop, if you can get more of his videos, please post them.

    For me at least, it was a tremendous CHIZUK.

    המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך אבלי ציון וירושלים

  3. BD”E. So sad to hear this. I had the honor and privilege to have a long conversation with him before COVID struck. Unfortunately, I never had the chance to meet him personally. He was a Munkatcher who lived next door to our family, the Perlsteins, and he remembered many details of his life at that time and about the Perlstein family, much of which I had never heard before. He told me that he remembered when someone came running in to the Bais Hamedrash of the Minchas Elazar to relate the besura that my grandfather, Shaul Yecheskel Perlstein, the Rosh Hakahal, was niftar and the reponse of the Minchas Elazar upon hearing the news. He was so articulate and a real link to the past. What a loss to all of us. May his family have a nechama.

    May he be a meilitz yosher for his family and for all of Klal Yisroel.

  4. His story with the Rayatz of Lubavitch is also worth repeating.
    I have been thinking and asking about him all the way through covid.
    ברוך דיין אמת

  5. Reb Avrohom Mordecha insisted that I must tell him a vort from the Chasam Sofer every time we meet. We met on Yomim Toivim mostly.

    He called me to his home numerous times to discuss some issues that was involved in, etc.
    What a loss.

  6. A great and very sweet Yid. He became good friends with my father (z’l) when he moved into my parents’ neighborhood. They shared that special connection that exists between survivors. Yehi Zichro Baruch.

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