Samuel A. (Shmuel Abba) Snieg (1899—1970) was

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in the

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of the

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, a survivor of the

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, and an organizer of the printing of the ''

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''. Snieg was raised in

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, and helped found Yeshiva Eitz Chaim in Lithuania. He was later a Rabbi for soldiers in Lithuania.

Family

His wife, Chana (nee Hurowitz), perished in the

Stutthof concentration camp Stutthof was a Nazi concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in a secluded, marshy, and wooded area near the village of Stutthof (now Sztutowo) 34 km (21 mi) east of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk) in the territory of the German-an ...

. After the war, he rammaried and his second wife, Chaya Leah, died in 1963.

References

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