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A long letter from Rabbi Shalom Moshe Halevi Ungar Rabbi of Neitra, Mount Kiska, New York, to Rabbi Bezalel Stern - A long letter from Rabbi Shalom Moshe Halevi Ungar Rabbi of Neitra, Mount Kiska, New York, to Rabbi Bezalel Stern Rabbi Shalom Moshe Ungar of Nitra (1916-2003) was a talmudist and a Holocaust rescue worker in Slovakia. He was a descendent of the Abarbanel (who was himself a descendent of King David). He was born in Krumpach, Slovakia. In 1941 and married the daughter of Rabbi Simcha Greenberg, an ardent Munkatcher chasid. Supported by his father-in-law, Rabbi Shalom Moshe studied Talmud with his brother-in-law, Rav Meir Greenberg, later to become the Kezmarker Rebbe of New York. Rabbi Shalom Moshe worked with another brother-in-law, Rabbi Michoel Ber Weissmandl, in rescue operations during World War II. Deportations from Nitra began in Elul of 1944. The Nitra yeshiva (of 200 students) was the last yeshiva in Europe to remain open and was liquidated on the 17th of Elul. Hiding in the forest for the remainder of the War, Rabbi Shalom Moshe lost his father, his wife, and his three children. In 1947, he was officially named Rabbi of Nitra. In 1948, the Nitra kehilla was re-established in Mount Kisco, Westchester County, NY.