(Grand Rebbe of Koidanov-Botoshaner, 1890-1978). Autograph Letter Signed written on letterhead in Hebrew to the Ezras Torah Fund in New York.

ZILBERFARB, CHANOCH HENOCH DOV

6th Adar II

Botoshan (Botosani, Romania)

1940

The letter opens with a lengthy blessing, and requests financial assistance due to the ‘additional burdens’ since the outbreak of war, and concludes with a prayer, ‘May God have mercy on us and save us from suffering.’

R. Chanoch Henoch Dov Zilberfarb served as the Grand Rebbe of Botoshan from 1929. During the war years, he assisted the masses of Jewish refugees from Poland who sought safety in Romania. Upon immigrating to Eretz Israel in 1948, he reinvigorated the Koidanev sect that Botoshan stemmed from, after it had been decimated by the Holocaust.