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Historical Prozbol deed for the Gaon Rabbi Eliyahu Sternbuch - signed by Antwerp Gedolim R. Chaim Kreiswirth, and Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Trager - Antwerp 1994 - Historical Prozbol deed for the Gaon Rabbi Eliyahu Sternbuch - signed by Antwerp Gedolim R. Chaim Kreiswirth, and Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Trager - Antwerp 1994 R. Chaim Kreiswirth (1918-2002) was a tremendous Torah scholar and gifted genius. Born in Galicia, he studied in Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin. During the Holocaust, he was miraculously saved from the Nazis and fled to Vilna, where he became acquainted with R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinski and drew close to the world of the Lithuanian Torah leaders. He married the daughter of R. Avraham Grodzinski, mashgiach of the Slabodka yeshiva. In 1941, he immigrated to Jerusalem, where he was known as ”the Ilui from Krakow”. He served as rabbi of the Orthodox Jewish community in Antwerp (Kehillat Machzikei Hadas) from 1954, and became known worldwide as one of the foremost Torah leaders of the previous generation. His tremendous Torah scholarship was equaled by his kindness and generosity, supporting orphans and widows and financing marriages for the poor. The Gaon Rabbi Eliyahu Sternbuch [1931-2017] son-in-law of the ”Makor Baruch” of Viznitz, Raba'd of ”Machazikei HaDat” in the court of Rabbi Chaim Kreiswirt in Antwerp Belgium, for about fifty years. Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Trager was an Israeli-Belgian rabbi and head of yeshiva. The head of the ”Etz Chaim” yeshiva in Wilreik, near Antwerp in Belgium. Son-in-law of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach