Project Witness Archive.

The Last Light of Slabodka: Rabbi Avraham Grodzinski, 1883–1944

Through seven photographs from the Rabbi Perlow Collection, this exhibit traces the life of Rabbi Avraham Grodzinski — the spiritual director of the legendary Slabodka Yeshiva in Kovno, Lithuania. From his youth as a promising scholar, through decades of guiding hundreds of students in the Mussar tradition of ethical self-examination, to his final years in the Kovno Ghetto where he was forced to shave his beard and continued teaching until his murder in July 1944.