Vaad Hatzala

Rescue committee founded in 1939 by Orthodox rabbis in the USA and Canada with the aim of rescuing Eastern European rabbis and religious students. After 1945, the Vaad Hatzala provided spiritual and material support to the DPs in the DP camps. In Munich, the organization ran an office at Bachmairstraße 12, where the Deputy Director for Germany, Rabbi Aviezer Bustin, also lived.