A Letter from the Beit Din of Apta, with the Handwriting and Signature of the Rebbe Rabbi Shalom Rokeach of Apta - ...

A Letter from the Beit Din of Apta, with the Handwriting and Signature of the Rebbe Rabbi Shalom Rokeach of Apta - 1934 - Extremely Rare!
A letter from the Beit Din of Apta regarding a mistake made in an authorization letter of a Get via a messenger in the Beit Din of Montevideo. An unidentified writer wrote the details of the problem with the authorization document, as well as a new, corrected authorization. Stamp of the Beit Din of Apta.
In the letter's margins are four additional lines in the handwriting of the Rebbe Rabbi Shalom Rokeach of Apta, who writes: "And our main request is to accelerate the matter as much as possible and to send a new authorization…as the matter is very urgent, and may G-d duly reward you…".
With the Rebbe's handwritten signature "The small one Shalom son of A"A my master of Belz who dwells here in Apta", and with his personal stamp on the other side of the leaf.
Extremely rare! The Apta Rebbe's signatures are occasionally found, but his handwriting has never been sold in an auction!

The Rebbe Rabbi Shalom Rokeach (1907-1944), the last Rabbi of the city of Apta before the Holocaust, the youngest of the four sons of the Rebbe Rabbi Yissachar Dov of Belz, the son-in-law of the Rebbe Rabbi Yisrael Perlow of Karlin-Stolin. Known from a young age for his great holiness, his immersion and diligence in the world of Torah and Chassidut. He had a noble personality and was extremely humble. His father, who loved him very much, said that he is an Olah Temima, like his grandfather, Rabbi Shalom Rokeach of Belz, after whom he is named.
He learned with great enthusiasm and yearning, and delved into the depths of Halacha. He learned the four parts of the Shulchan Aruch and the responsa literature many times.
In 1931 he was appointed as the Rabbi of the city of Apta and was greatly admired by the city's residents.
During the Holocaust he escaped to his brothers in the city of Belz. He later hid in Drohobycher, Stryj and Przemysl. He later escaped to the forests, and tried to escape through them to Hungary, to join his two older brothers, the Rebbe Rabbi Aharon of Belz and the Rabbi of Bolgoray, Rabbi Mordechai Rokeach. In the fall of 1944 he succumbed to the terrible cold and hunger. He was buried in one of the forests, where he passed away.
His brother the Rebbe Rabbi Aharon of Belz, when he heard of his death eulogized him in the city of Budapest, and said about him that he was "a righteous man, with fear of Heaven, one who gave charity and a greatly pious man".
His wife and children were also murdered in the Holocaust.
16*25cm.
Condition: Excellent.