The Rabbi says it best

Former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau is one of my all-time favourite people.
His brother's account of their deliverance from the Holocaust is a true inspiration to all those who believe (or seek to believe) in divine intervention for the fulfillment of a personal mission in this world.

I was taken with this extract from an interview he gave to Hamodia on the eve of his address to the UN General Assembly for International Holocaust Day.
(Click the clip to enlarge and read).

Destiny in a sack

Letter to Jerusalem Post Magazine

Thanks for an excellent resumé on the career of Justice Aharon Barak.

The story of his childhood escape from the holocaust in a burlap sack was fascinating.

It reminded me of another child who bypassed the gas chambers being carried by his brother in a sack and who similarly rose to great prominence in Israel. That was Yisrael Meir Lau.

Ironic therefore that Chief Rabbi Lau came from a religious background and so endeared himself to the secular, whilst the secular Barak so alienated himself from the religious.