Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz uprooted the 350 staff and students of the Mir Yeshiva from Eastern Europe as World War II threatened its existence, arranging their move from Japan to Shanghai to Brooklyn, making it the only yeshiva to survive the Holocaust intact.
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Ninety years ago, a deep friendship formed between Phil and Dovid. They were both American Yeshiva students in America