CHAMBER OF DEATH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22738, 26 November 1935, Page 4

CHAMBER OF DEATH

MAN WHO ROSE FROM HIS COFFIN. While the 10 traditional watchers intoned the Jewish resurrection prayer in a house in Warsaw at midnight, a " dead" man moved in his coffin, then slowly raised himself and gazed dazedly around him. The shock was so great that one of the watchers cried out, then collapsed—killed by fright. The "dead" man was Israel Schneidermarin, a quiet, 50-year-old Jew of the strictly orthodox faith. He fell fainting with a bad heart attack. Soon his heart stopped beating. Doctors examined him, issued a death certificate. Burials are forbidden on the Jewish New Year's Day, which begins at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. So it was arranged that Schneidermann should be buried early next morning before the festival began.' At night the 10 wavmers guarded the coffin, and intoned the Jewish prayer, which declares that the dead shall be resurrected at the advent of the Jewish Messiah. Suddenly the figure in the coffin began to stir. Israel Schneidermann had risen from the dead. He has fully recovered.