Before the Second World War broke out, he served as rosh yeshiva in Hungarian town of Satmar (now Satu Mare, Romania). The Nazis arrested him and his entire family in 1944. The family was deported to Auschwitz, where only Reb Moshe Aryeh survived; his wife and all of his nine children died there at the hands of the Nazis.
In 1951 he moved to Jerusalem, where he became the Rov of the Satmar community there. In 1979, he was elected av beis din of the Edah HaChareidis, a position which he fulfilled until his death on the 20th of Elul 5756.
This is Part 2. Click below for part 1.
Part 1
No comments:
Post a Comment