Large Collection of [35] Letters of Thanks and Requests Written to Ezrat Torah, 1947-1949

Large Collection of [35] Letters of Thanks and Requests Written to Ezrat Torah, 1947-1949

[35] letters of thanks and requests to Ezrat Torah, most of them from the She'erit HaPleita in Europe. 1947-1949.

Content of the letters: The writers note their suffering during the Holocaust, their present difficulties, the vital need for support for their physical and spiritual needs, give thanks for the assistance and ask for further support. The letters are replete with words of faith and tzidduk hadin, Torah thoughts, details about the needy and more. The letters are important historical documents which attest to the tremendous aid and rescue work of Ezrat Torah, in the years following the Second World War.

Among the writers are: the Agudat Rabbanim in Austria, Rabbi Yirmi [?] Braun from the DP Camp IT77 in Milan, Rebbetzin Rachel Frankel, Rabbi Amram Schwartz, [Rabbi] Yaakov Yosef Sheinfeld, Rabbi Yoel Yom Tov [?] who is in 'a camp in the land of Amalek, ' Rabbi Yosef Katz HaCohen, rabbi in the Tradesman's Center and the "Geulat Yisrael" synagogue in Tel Aviv, Rabbi Shlomo Weiss who was in Germany, Pinchas Wilder from Sweden, Rabbi David Frankfurter the grandson of the righteous rabbi, Rabbi Amram Taub, rabbi of Reichenhall in Germany, Kibbutz "Chafetz Chaim" in the Eschwege DP Camp, Rabbi Chaim Leib Bro Zacks, Rabbi Yisrael Chaim Berkowitz who was in Bamberg, Rabbi Meshulam Shraga Feivush Halpstein who was in Germany, Rabbi Matel Landmau of Romania, Avraham Grossman, Avraham son of Yechiel Meir Langleben who was in Rivoli in Italy, Rabbi David Schpitzer who writes from Košice, Yitzchak Klein and Mordechai Eliezer Dambitzer writing from Paris, Rabbi Yoel Zev Segal Halpert of the congregation Esh V'Hagalil. Menachem Adler of Marienbad, Shemel Yuldman of the United States, and more.

The following documents are added to the lot:

* Schedule for four departments [classes].

* Postcard for the young man Naftali Landau with a request to send Sifrei Shulchan Malachim. Hungary [?], 1943.

* Official paper leaf of Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin with an handwritten inscription of a name and address.

The 'Ezrat Torah' organization was established in 1915 in the United States in order to support rabbis during the First World War. The organization's goals were expanded to aid in a wide range of fields. Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin headed the organization beginning in 1924 for several decades, and under his leadership the organization aided Jews suffering under Communist rule, during the great depression, between the two world wars in Europe, during the Holocaust, in the DP camps in Europe and during the period of austerity in Israel. After the economic state of the Western world stabilized, Ezrat Torah also aided in the field of establishing housing projects in the State of Israel.

Condition: Conditions vary. Overall fine condition.