According to a riveting account in the New York Times, during World War II, Schacter famously rushed to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany to tell the Jews there that they had been liberated from the Nazis.
After the war, Schacter eventually ended up in the northwest Bronx where he would serve from 1947, when the Norwood and Bedford Park areas were heavily populated with Jews, until the temple closed because of waning membership in 1999.
Schacter is survived by his wife; a son, Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter; a daughter, Miriam Schacter; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren, according to the Times.
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the April 4-17 print edition of the Norwood News.
admin
Welcome to the Norwood News, a bi-weekly community newspaper that primarily serves the northwest Bronx communities of Norwood, Bedford Park, Fordham and University Heights. Through our Breaking Bronx blog, we focus on news and information for those neighborhoods, but aim to cover as much Bronx-related news as possible. Founded in 1988 by Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a not-for-profit affiliate of Montefiore Medical Center, the Norwood News began as a monthly and grew to a bi-weekly in 1994. In September 2003 the paper expanded to cover University Heights and now covers all the neighborhoods of Community District 7. The Norwood News exists to foster communication among citizens and organizations and to be a tool for neighborhood development efforts. The Norwood News runs the Bronx Youth Journalism Heard, a journalism training program for Bronx high school students. As you navigate this website, please let us know if you discover any glitches or if you have any suggestions. We’d love to hear from you. You can send e-mails to norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org or call us anytime (718) 324-4998.
English
Arabic
Bengali
Chinese (Simplified)
French
Spanish