Yisroel Spira (November 12, 1889 – October 30, 1989), the Bluzhover Rebbe, was a senior member of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, and a Holocaust survivor.
His experiences in the Nazi concentration camps were the basis for the book Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust.
צמח דוד) of Dinov, who in turn was the son of Tzvi Elimelech Spira of Dynów (1783–1841), the author of Bnei Yisaschar (Heb.
As a result of the Nazi occupation of Poland, the Jews were first herded into ghettos, then suffered deportation to destinations yet unknown.
Her first husband, Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Koshitzki, perished in the Bełżec extermination camp.
Spira relocated to the United States, at first settling in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, and later in Borough Park.