Hanukkah menorah received by Rabbi Rose from a Dutch Holocaust survivor
Captain Isaac B. Rose with his Chaplain's jeep, 1945
Hanukkah menorah received by Rabbi Rose from a Dutch Holocaust survivor
Captain Isaac B. Rose with his Chaplain's jeep, 1945
Rabbi Dr. Isaac B. Roseserved as a Jewish chaplain Allied forces, Canadian army. After the liberation of Holland, Captain Rose was active in setting up a Jewish chaplain's center in Amsterdam that served Jewish survivors returning from the camps or from their hiding places during the war, as well as Allied soldiers. As a tribute to his services, a Dutch Jewish survivor presented Captain Rose with this characteristic Dutch Hanukkah menorah that survived the war. Back in Canada in 1947, Rabbi Rose married Leisje (Leesha) Bornstijn, a Jewish member of the Dutch underground whom he had met in Holland at the end of the war. In 1973 they immigrated to Israel.