Background
Menachem Mendel Taub is the son of Rabbi Yehuda Yechiel Taub, the Rozler Rov, and son-in-law of Grand Rabbi Pinchos Shapiro, the Kechneyer Rebbe, scion of the Nadvorna dynasty.
Menachem Mendel Taub is the son of Rabbi Yehuda Yechiel Taub, the Rozler Rov, and son-in-law of Grand Rabbi Pinchos Shapiro, the Kechneyer Rebbe, scion of the Nadvorna dynasty.
In 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving there three days before Shavuot. While in Auschwitz, he was experimented upon by Josef Mengele. Because of "chemical burning experiments", he is unable to grow facial hair.
He is also unable to have children.
He was transferred from Auschwitz to the Warsaw Ghetto and the Breslau concentration camp, and later to Bergen-Belsen. In 1947 they immigrated to the United States and settled in Cleveland, Ohio.
The following year he founded Kiryas Kaliv in Rishon LeZion. Several years later he moved his headquarters to Bnei Brak.
In 2004, the rebbe"s court moved to Jerusalem.
Since World World War II, the Rebbe has actively spoken about the Holocaust and frequently invokes the memory of the Jewish martyrs. He has encouraged the recital of "Shema Yisrael" to memorialize Holocaust victims at the conclusion of religious events in Israel. He has also traveled to interact with millions of Jews by telling his story and encouraging the saying of "Shema Yisrael".
He is also active in Jewish outreach and conducts regular lectures for groups of professionals, including doctors and police officers.
In addition, a network of kollels, an encyclopedia project, and several other divisions of Kaliv have been founded. In March 2014 he participated in the annual conference of the Rabbinical Congress of Europe, which met in Budapest to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the destruction of Hungarian Jewry.
He delivered an emotion-laden speech in Hebrew, and switched to English to direct remarks to United States President Barack Obama and Russian president Vladimir Putin. Taub"s first wife, Chana Sara, died in 2010.
On Lag BaOmer 2012, he remarried to 55-year-old Sheindel Malnik of Bnei Brak.
Grand Rabbi Yitzchak Izak Taub of Kaliv (1751-1821)
Grand Rabbi Moshe Chaim Taub of Kaliv-Zidichov (died 1831) – son of Rabbi Yitzchak Izak, son-in-law of Rabbi Tzvi of Zidichov
Grand Rabbi Yehuda Tzvi Taub of Kaliv-Rozlo (1849-1886)
Rabbi Pinchas Chaim Taub Chief Rabbi of Rozlo (d 1936) – son of Rabbi Yehuda Tzvi and author of Toras Chesed, Ohel Moed, and Alufei Yehudo. Lived in Margareten during World War I
Rabbi Yehuda Yechiel Taub, Chief Rabbi of Rozlo (d 1938) – son of Rabbi Pinchos Chaim and author of Lev Someach heChodosh
Grand Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub of Kaliv, present Kaliver Rebbe.