 But he said, “How can I stand by when the wronged man’s life depends on this food?” Indeed he insisted on taking a stand, and the Ukrainians, with the cooperation of the Nazi soldiers, rose against him and killed him, after torturing him mercilessly.As a result of the Holocaust, Teichtal changed his position on land of Israel, as he struggled to make meaning out of what was happening around him.His carefully constructed arguments are outlined in his book "Eim HaBanim Semeicha", penned during his wanderings in hiding from his Nazi oppressors and their collaborators.