BROOKLYN – Yehuda Lindenblatt, a Holocaust survivor and longtime Hatzolah member who continued responding to emergencies in Flatbush daily, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 88.
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Known by his unit number F-71, Yehuda was a pillar of the Flatbush Hatzolah community. Even as recently as last year, he was still answering emergency calls—often arriving on scene before others by sprinting from his daily jog on the Brighton Beach boardwalk.
Born in Budapest, Yehuda and his brothers, George and Robert, were young children when the Nazis occupied Hungary in 1944. As mass deportations sent hundreds of thousands to Auschwitz, the Lindenblatt family went into hiding. They moved between safe houses and shelters, narrowly avoiding capture. Their father, Jeno, desperately tried to protect them, securing refuge for his sons in a factory complex that became a haven for thousands. Hunger and fear were constant, and Yehuda later recalled pleading to eat even a scrap of soap. Their grandfather, an Orthodox rabbi, was among those executed along the Danube River.
The Lindenblatt brothers’ story of survival is documented in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection and featured in the Our Holocaust Story initiative.
Yehuda later built a life in New York, where he devoted decades to Hatzolah. At an event marking his 85th birthday, he looked around the room and said, “With Hatzolah, I beat Hitler.”
In 2023, Yehuda had the honor of lighting the menorah at City Hall alongside Mayor Adams.
From his early days as a Brighton Beach Hatzolah member (BR21) to his decades of service in Flatbush, Yehuda was an inspiration to generations of EMTs.
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Boruch Dyan HaEmes, may he be a melitz Yosher for his family, friends & all of Klal Yisorel. Adolf YMS, we WON & you are but a page in history, AM YISROEL CHAI
Is that captain Richard tailor ?
The Nazi virus that has been infecting Arab “palestinians” since 1932, especially by al Husseini’s circles, teachers like Darwish al-Miqdadi and Akram Zuaiter, all three involved on agitating to the Shavuot June/1941 – Farhoud pogrom, where upto 1,000 may have died. There were mass rape, throwing children in water in front of parents, dismemberment of bodies, babies crushed…. After marking red Hamsa on Jewish business…
Just as Sari al-Sakakini’s Feb/1941 poll showed 80% pro Axis in Arab Palestine, the glorification of Hitler in Arab press, including ‘Falastin’ since 1933 and Islamic al Difa’a since 1934, (save for WW2 years when the Brits censored it), or as Emil Ghouri (Ghory) wrote in his publication ‘Arab Federation’ in 1934 (July/7): “Hitler, whom the Arabs admire very much,” or as the NYT reported on May 23, 1937, ALL Arabs in “palestine” celebreated Muhamnad’s birthday with swastikas and Hitler picture, and as John Gunther wrote in 1939 Hitler is most admired personality there, or as the magazine ‘Pathfinder’ wrote in 1940: “Palestine’s Arabs admire Hitler for his Jew – baiting,” or as Ahmad Shukeiri wrote in his 1969 book (pages 199, 201) on their general admiration, cheering amd praying for Hitler, Nazis victory, as well as 2013 PLO’s Farouk Qaddoumi’s admission on RT that they supported the German nazis as both were against Zionists. (As to the meager 9,000 Arabs fighting for the Brits – paid by Jews, most deserted to help Nazis in 1943).
And still today, Hitler is most admired at Arab “palestine” as his ‘Mein Kampf’ popularity; swastikas drawing and ‘Sturmer’ style cartoons in official PA.
Yehuda Lindenblatt ztl might have been the last mench in Brooklyn, will be missed
ARAB NAZISM
Just as Sari al-Sakakini’s Feb/1941 poll showed 80% pro Axis in Arab Palestine, the glorification of Hitler in Arab press, including ‘Falastin’ since 1933 and Islamic al Difa’a since 1934, (save for WW2 years when the Brits censored it), or as Emil Ghouri (Ghory) wrote in his publication ‘Arab Federation’ in 1934 (July/7): “Hitler, whom the Arabs admire very much,” or as the NYT reported on May 23, 1937, ALL Arabs in “palestine” celebreated Muhamnad’s birthday with swastikas and Hitler picture, and as John Gunther wrote in 1939 Hitler is most admired personality there, or as the magazine ‘Pathfinder’ wrote in 1940: “Palestine’s Arabs admire Hitler for his Jew – baiting,” or as Ahmad Shukeiri wrote in his 1969 book (pages 199, 201) on their general admiration, cheering amd praying for Hitler, Nazis victory, as well as 2013 PLO’s Farouk Qaddoumi’s admission on RT that they supported the German nazis as both were against Zionists. (As to the meager 9,000 Arabs fighting for the Brits – paid by Jews, most deserted to help Nazis in 1943).