(Grand-Rabbi of Klausenberg-Sanz). Letter from the Yeshiva of Kiryat Sanz to Ezrath Torah requesting increase in aid to the Yeshiva

HALBERSTAM, RABBI YEKUTHIEL YEHUDA

Netanya

27th Adar, 1971

Typed Letter in Hebrew on headed stationary. With last four lines in the hand of and signed by the Klausenberger Rebbe, offering his blessings

Orphaned at the age of fourteen, he was brought up by his great-uncle R. Shalom Eliezer of Ratzfort. In 1926 he became the Chassidic Rabbi of Klausenburg. During the War, he was interned in a number of labor camps and Auschwitz where his wife and children perished. After the War, he travelled from camp to camp in Germany nourishing and helping the Shearith Hapleitah (the remnants of the War), with religious teachings establishing Yeshivoth, girls schools, publications and kosher kitchens. He eventually settled in Williamsburg, Brooklyn then Union City, N.J. In 1956 he established Kiryat Zans in Netanya which became a thriving community including the religious Laniado Hospital. He was a prolific author, publishing innovative works in both halacha and aggadah including Shefa Chaim and Dever Yatziv.