Menachem Z. Rosensaft
Menachem Z. Rosensaft (born 1948 in Bergen-Belsen, Germany) an attorney in New York and the Founding Chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Survivors, is a leader of the Second Generation movement of children of survivors, and has been described on the front page of the "New York Times" as one of the most prominent of the survivors' sons and daughters. He also served as National President of the Labor Zionist Alliance, and was active in the early stages of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. As psychologist Eva Fogelman has written: "Menachem Rosensaft's moral voice has gone beyond the responsibility he felt as a child of survivors to remember and educate. He felt the need to promote peace and a tolerant State of Israel as well. He wanted to bring to justice Nazi war criminals, to fight racism and bigotry, and to work toward the continuity of the Jewish people".
Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld
In 1924, Rosenfeld immigrated to the United States with his parents, settling in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York. He was a student at Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin for elementary school and Yeshiva Torah Vodaas for high school. He next learned at Yeshivas Bais Yosef-Novardok, where he became a study partner of the son of the rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Avraham Yoffen. After completing the entire Talmud for the second time at the age of 23, Rosenfeld received "semicha" (rabbinical ordination) from Yoffen. Four years later, he received "semicha" from Rabbi Avraham Sternhartz, leader of the Breslov Hasidim in Jerusalem, who tested him on his knowledge of Talmud, Midrash, Shulchan Aruch, Zohar, and Kabbalah. He also completed a course in accounting.