R. Chaim Ozer Grodzensky to R. Kook. Proclaiming a Fast in Vilna due to the rise of Nazism in Germany 1933! ...

R. Chaim Ozer Grodzensky to R. Kook. Proclaiming a Fast in Vilna due to the rise of Nazism in Germany 1933! Historic Discovery!
Historic autograph letter by R. Chaim Ozer Grodzensky to R. Avrohom Yitzchok HaCohen Kook. In the letter R. Chaim Ozer writes that he had proclaimed a fast in Vilna and the surrounding areas because Hitler Y”S was elected to power in Germany “The new Tzaros will cause the old ones to be forgotten… may HaShem have mercy on us”.
Written 6 years before the outbreak of the beginning of the War, this letter is indicative of the foresight of R. Chaim Ozer regarding Nazi Germany and its intention of eradicating world Jewry.
R. Chaim Ozer Grodzensky (1863-1940), was born into a distinguished rabbinical family and was renowned from a young age for his brilliant mind coupled with great diligence. He initially learned in Eishishok and later in Volozhin, studying under R. Chaim Soloveitchik. He married the daughter of R. Eliyahu Eliezer Grodensky, a leading Rov of Vilna (son-in-law of R. Yisroel Salanter), whom he later succeeded. He dedicated his life to the needs of the Jewish People and was recognized as the leading Posek and spiritual leader of his generation, consulted on virtually every Jewish communal issue. He played an instrumental role in preserving Lithuanian Yeshivos during the beginning of the Communist era, and led the yeshivas of Poland and Russia after the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, arranging for these yeshivas to relocate to Lithuanian villages.
26 by 21 cm. Very fine condition.
Opening bid $1000