Six letters on the subject of the spiritual arrangements for the survivors in Germany, some on official letterheads of the various aid committees. 1948-1952.
* Letter signed by Rabbi Yitzchak Mordechai Schwartz on the official stationery of ‘Survivors under the Leadership of R’ Yekutiel Yehudah Halberstam Shlit”a …’ in Fernwald, Shevat 1947. Sent to the Admor of Stropkov, Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Lipshitz Halberstam. Among other matters, Rabbi Schwartz discusses the letters that had arrived from the Admor of Klausenberg and about the shipment sent to them in Fernwald.
* Interesting letter on the subject of the struggles over the distribution of funds between the chareidim and the free among the survivors, handwritten and signed by Rabbi Moshe Schuster, written in Fernwald 1948. In the letter, Rabbi Schuster tells about the struggles between the chareidim and the free on the subject of the distribution of the monies collected for the ill among the survivors. At first, the funds were joint, but there was ‘slight favor’ shown to the G-d-fearing by the committee responsible – the committee saw it a something of a compensation to their dedicated organization for raising the funds. The free clearly opposed this: ‘And this was seen by the leadership of the free … as thorns in their eyes – why should the chareidim and G-d-fearing benefit more than they, so they employed the characteristic of Sodom: Neither I nor you will have. In the letter, the rabbi tells that the free published in the press that they are not interested in receiving any support: ‘ Neither I nor you will have’ and explains that ‘this hurt us a lot – the Sitra Achra and the criminals preventing the Jewish people from giving charity.’ In response, the committee arranged charity boxes designated for the chareidi public only. In the margins, R’ Shuster details the list of rabbis who benefit from the new fund founded for chareidim in Fernwald.
* Letter from Vaad Agudat HaRabbanim in the American Zone of Munich on official Vaad stationery, addressed to the Admor of Stropkov. In the letter, the committee members express astonishment at the huge sums the Admor sought for the salaries of the supervisors there and they claim that if the Joint hears all the amounts requested they will certainly not authorize them.
* Letter signed by Rabbi Elchanan Parson from the Religious Office in Munich, 10 Iyar 1948, in which he thanks the Admor of Stropkov for saving the Vaad from leading the public astray by buying tzitzit made not according to halachah (apparently by machine).
* Letter on postcard handwritten and signed by Rabbi Avraham David Horowitz while on vacation in Switzerland.
* Letter from the Bada”tz in Pest from Tammuz 1952 signed by Amram HaLevi Jungreis about a woman living there and settling matters with her husband.
Overall fine condition.