(Szerdahely Rov, 1895-1944). Autograph Letter Signed, written on letterhead to.

WEINBERGER, HILLEL

Tuesday, Parshath Vayetzei

Dunajská Streda (Dunaszerdahely / Niedermarkt) Slovakia

1942

Concerning the desperate situation of hundreds of Jews who had been forced out of Hungary, and were now trapped in the cold in no-man’s-land without food or shelter. The recipient is begged to mobilize Jews to protest through every means at their disposal.

Succeeded his father R. Shmuel Levi Weinberger (1860-1925) as Av Beth Din, who was the son-in-law of R. Hillel Lichtenstein of Kolomea (1814-91). It was here, in Dunaszerdahely, that the great Posek R. Yehuda Aszod presided. The town changed sovereignty from Hungary to Czechoslovakia after WWI, but reverted to Hungary in 1938, a fact that would delay the arrival of the Nazis to the locale by a few years. Today it is in the border of Slovakia.