Update 1: The name of the author of the book about Rayatz in Warsaw is not Briggs, it is Bryan Mark Rigg.
Chatcha Feign was not killed in Warsaw, he and Yehuda Eber were burnt alive in the same Riga shul as Itche der Masmid and many other Jews. On yud kislev, 5742. Needs confirmation.
The Rebbe’s grandmother Rochel Yanovski was murdered by the nazis in Nikolayev. She was at that point blind and alone (everyone else was either arrested or dead). The last one arrested was her son-in-law Shmuel (arrested in the summer of 1941, and interrogated about the sukkah he had built in the courtyard… while the German tanks rolled toward Nilkolayev).
Update 2: Kedoshim should be memorialized, Chatcha Feign, Yehuda Eber and many, many others. But also Admiral Wilhelm Canaris and Major Ernst Bloch who saved the Rayatz, Rashag and their families.
Update 3: What kind of man it takes in the thousands of hours of his speeches not to say a one word about his murderered grandmother? Asking honestly? And not like every minute of his sichos counted, 95% of his 4 hour sichos were slogans that he repeated in the loop for years, I heard that myself. But no time to mention the martyrs, even his own family?
Update 4: See companion post Hitler Lives and the Holocaust omission in America.
Sound No. 3 - Sholem Aleichem: On Cultural Memory