Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941) was the second Bobover Rebbe, known as the Baal Kedushas Tzion.

The friend also argued that the Germans would honor Halberstam’s official papers that declared he was a foreign resident.

On Friday, July 25, he left his place of hiding and established himself openly in a separate room in the apartment.

Early in the morning of July 25, groups of peasants from nearby villages began to flow into Lwów.

They assembled on the premises of police stations; set out from there to the streets accompanied by Ukrainian policemen, and assaulted any Jew whom they encountered with clubs, knives and axes.

At about 6 p.m. that very day the door opened suddenly and a Ukrainian youth entered together with the building’s gentile superintendent.

When the number of captives reached a hundred, the guards arranged them in a row, three abreast, and ordered them to march.