Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl

Chaim Michael Dov Weiss Mandl (Hebrew חיים מיכאל דב וויסמנדל, born October 25, 1903 in Debrecen, Hungary, † November 29, 1957 in Mount Kisco, New York ) was an Orthodox rabbi, Jewish scholar and author ( his most famous work: Min Hamezar ), Rosh yeshiva and shtadlan, who became famous as the savior of the Jews of Slovakia during the Holocaust era. Through his efforts, the mass deportation of Slovak Jews from 1942 has been postponed to 1944.

Life

He was born the son of Yosef Weiss Mandl in Hungary. A few years later the family moved to Trnava in today's Slovakia. In 1931 he moved to Nitra to study under Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Ungar, whose daughter, Rachel Bracha, he married in 1937. Even when he was at Oxford University, White Mandl drew it on September 1, 1939, in Slovakia as an agent of the World Agudath Israel return.

Works

• Toras Chemed ( Mt Kisco, 1958)
• Min HaMeitzar (Jerusalem, 1960)
• Kikayon D' Yonah