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LOT 359:
Chabad - Two Letters by the Admor Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak's Son-in-Law - Rabbi Shmaryahu Gur-Aryeh, one of which is ...
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Chabad - Two Letters by the Admor Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak's Son-in-Law - Rabbi Shmaryahu Gur-Aryeh, one of which is from when he fled during WWII
Two letters signed by Rabbi Shmaryahu Gur Aryeh - son-in-law of the Admor Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak. One of the letters was written in Riga while he was escaping during WWII.
1. Moving letter written while fleeing during WWII, addressed to his friend Rabbi Chanoch Hendel, written in Riga on the 4th of Adar A 1940. Among other things, the rabbi asks that he obtain a certificate to the Land of Israel for him, and details his status as a Latvian citizen, and that there is no need to obtain a document attesting to the day of his arrival in Riga. The letter demonstrates great tension and anxiety about his fate during WWII, near the end of the letter, he writes: 'And here I will repeat my request that he please in his goodness make every effort to obtain a certificate to the Land of Israel for me and my family as soon as possible, and please notify me as to its progress.' Two corrections in his handwriting. [1] leaf official stationery. 31x21 cm. Fold marks, fine condition.
2. The second letter was written while he was in Jerusalem in 1950, dealing with a sum of money R' Shmaryahu Gur Aryeh obtained for the Torat Emet yeshiva. [1] leaf official stationery 28x22 cm. Fold marks, fine condition.
Rabbi Shmaryahu Gur Aryeh [The RaSha"G 1897-1989]: Son-in-law of the sixth Admor of Chabad Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, brother-in-law of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson and principal of the of the Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch yeshiva network. In 1932, he lived with his father-in-law in Warsaw. Between 1935-1938 he lived occasionally in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. In 1939, he returned to Poland, and after the outbreak of WWII, in January 1940, he joined his father-in-law who escaped Poland with his family and twenty escorts, via Berlin to Riga. On 24 Adar A 1940 they left Riga, moved on to Stockholm (Sweden) and sailed from there to the United States, where they arrived on 8 Adar B 1940.
