Joseph (Yossel) Friedenson was the editor of the monthly
Yiddish-language Dos Yiddishe Vort (“The Jewish
Word”) journal published by Agudath Israel of America. For
close to 60 years, he was the voice of the post-Holocaust Eastern
European Orthodox Jewish community. A survivor of six
concentration camps, he was liberated from Auschwitz-Birkenau on
January 27, 1945. |