Megillat Tikvah: Faith, Hope and Survival–The Journey of Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Roszler

A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Survival …In March 1985, Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Roszler decided to record the story of his life using a cassette tape recorder. Over the next eight years, he recounted his amazing life journey, starting with his childhood in the small primitive shtetel of Borgo Prund, Transylvania, in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, where he attended cheder and public school, and grew up under the totalitarian rule of the Romanian and Hungarian fascist regimes.

Rabbi Roszler takes us on the tragic voyage from the Bistritz ghetto to the death camps of Auschwitz, Mauthasen, and Ebensee. As a 15-year-old orphan-the only survivor of his family-he was forced to negotiate the dangerous, pell-mell landscape of post-war Europe to reach the shores of the United States.

As a 17-year-old immigrant to New York City-who didn’t speak a word of English-he slowly rebuilt his life, becoming a Rabbi in small cities, starting a family, and working as a businessman in Los Angeles.

In Megillat Tikvah (the story of faith), Rabbi Roszler leaves a legacy to his family and friends that is astonishing in detail from a past era. It is an extraordinary tale of faith, hope, and survival.