Rabbi Yoel Reitzer Paris, late 1930s Rabbi Yoel Reitzer lives in Antwerpen, Belgium. His father, Moshe Zev Reitzer was studying to become a pharmacist at “the Sorbonne,” attending some of the same classes as the Rebbe in the late 1930’s.
Based on first-person testimony from the oral history project, My Encounter with the Rebbe, The Early Years is a documentary series that sheds unprecedented light on the Rebbe and Rebbetzin’s life in Russia and Europe from the Rebbe’s birth in 1902 until he arrived in the US in 1941.
Early Years Volume III focuses on the Rebbe and Rebbetzin’s last years in Paris from 1938 through 1940.
