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Postcard handwritten by one of the administrators of the “Knesset Beit Yitzchak” Yeshiva in Kaminetz, urgently requesting assistance from the Vaad HaYeshivot for absorbing students from Frankfurt. Kaminetz, 1933. “… we are discussing the Bnei Yeshiva from Ashkenaz studying in our holy Yeshiva, who are in urgent need of assistance” – appeal of a representative of the Kaminetz Yeshiva’s administration to the Vaad HaYeshivot, requesting immediate support to help their Yeshiva absorb students who had arrived from Germany. Kaminetz, 1933. [1] Postcard, with the seal of the “Knesset Beit Yitzchak” Yeshiva in Kaminetz, the seal of the administration, and the seal of the Rosh Yeshiva, the Gaon Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz. Entirely handwritten and signed by one of the Yeshiva’s administrators [possibly Rabbi Reuven Grozovsky, eldest son-in-law of Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz]. The students who arrived from Frankfurt and studied in the Kaminetz Yeshiva in the same year the Nazis rose to power in Germany are mentioned in the postcard by name: Gedaliah Schneider, Mordechai Schwab, Moshe Schwab, and Mendel Grassman. Vaad HaYeshivot – founded in Vilna in 1924 at the initiative of the Chafetz Chaim and the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski. It represented the many Yeshivot operating in Eastern Europe and provided for their financial support. The Vaad established an organized fundraising network in hundreds of communities and relied on Rabbis and activists to encourage contributions. The holy Gaon Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz (1870–1939) – one of the greatest of his generation and a foremost transmitter of Torah in the Yeshiva world. Known as a saint from birth. The foremost disciple of Rabbi Chaim of Brisk, to whose Torah he cleaved all his life. After a period, he opened a Yeshiva in the city and served as its head. In 1904, he was appointed Rosh Yeshiva of Knesset Beit Yitzchak, founded by Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Rabinowitz, son of Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor and Rav of Kovno. He left behind his classic sefer Birkat Shmuel on the Talmud. His son-in-law, Rabbi Raphael Reuven Grozovsky, served as administrator, Rosh Metivta, and Rosh Yeshiva of Knesset Beit Yitzchak in Lithuania, of Torah Vodaath in New York, and of Beis Medrash Elyon in Monsey, and was chairman of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Agudas Yisrael in America. Rabbi Gedaliah Schneider (1916–2007) – son of the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Schneider, Rosh Yeshiva of “Torat Emet” (Schneider’s) in Frankfurt and London. For six weeks, he was in the presence of the Chafetz Chaim and transmitted details of his conduct at the Pesach Seder. A disciple of Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz of Mir and of Rabbi Baruch Ber in Kaminetz. Later, he fled as a refugee to Baranovitch to avoid Polish military conscription, and from there he succeeded in emigrating to London, where he taught and gave mussar talks in Yeshivat Torat Emet. In 1995, he moved to Bnei Brak. Rabbi Mordechai Menachem Schwab (1911–1994) – known as the “Tzaddik of Monsey, ” born in Frankfurt and educated in the Yeshiva of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. At 18, he entered Yeshivat Mir and learned under the Mashgiach, Rabbi Yerucham. After three and a half years, he moved to Yeshivat Kaminetz, where he studied for seven years and became one of its outstanding students. He fled with the Yeshiva to Vilna and later arrived with the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai, China. In 1946, he emigrated to the U.S., where he taught and served as Mashgiach Ruchani in Yeshivat Beis Shraga. Author of Ma’amar Mordechai and Igrot Ma’amar Mordechai. Rabbi Moshe Schwab (1917–1979) – at age sixteen, followed his older brother, Rabbi Mordechai, to study under Rabbi Baruch Ber in Kaminetz. Later, he learned in Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman’s Yeshiva in Baranovitch and absorbed mussar from Rabbi Yisrael Yaakov Lubchansky. After two and a half years, he returned to Kaminetz. With the outbreak of WWII, he succeeded in reaching London, where he studied and taught in Rabbi Moshe Schneider’s Yeshiva. In 1942, he was among the first students of the Kollel in Gateshead under Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, and in 1947, he became Mashgiach Ruchani of Gateshead Yeshiva, raising many students. Filing holes. Very good condition.