Rafael Teitelbaum died on Sunday, March 1, 2009, at the age of 85.
A memorial service in Boulder is being planned. If you are interested in attending, send email to rafael.memorial@yahoo.com, and we will send you info as soon as the details are set. Or, just check back here in a week.
Here is the hesped, or eulogy, that his son Chaim delivered at his funeral in Boston. The Daily Camera of Boulder published an obituary. The Daily Camera also provides a guest book where you can leave messages.
A few years ago, he wrote a memoir, describing his childhood in Europe before World War II, his war-time and post-war experiences, and his subsequent experiences in Israel and the United States. [PDF HTML]
His daughter-in-law, the late Amy Silberberg, wrote a poem on the 50th anniversary of his liberation from the Nazi concentration camps.
The granddaughter of a friend of his wrote this poem a few days before he died and was able to read it to him.
