Letter (3 pages), handwritten and signed by Rebbe Aharon Teitelbaum, Rabbi of Volova, a few weeks after he escaped Volova during the Holocaust and reached Nyírbátor as a refugee. Nyírbátor, Motzaei Shabbat between Yom Kippur and Sukkot [13 Tishrei], [October] 1941. German (apparently due to censorship).

Written on Rebbe Aharon's official stationery. Sent to "my dear nephew R. Zalman Leib Teitelbaum" [apparently one of his nephews named R. Yekutiel Yehudah Teitelbaum, who had previously managed to reach safety]. He asks him to attend to sending food to family members in the German occupied territories, and the protectorates in Hungary and Romania.

In his letter he writes that he has currently been in Nyírbátor for several weeks [in late 1941 Rebbe Aharon was forced to flee Volova due to the German occupation and the expulsion of foreign nationals. He reached Nyírbátor and began to serve in place of his brother R. Naftali, who had passed away in 1938]. Rebbe Aharon recounts how he visited Satmar on the way there, and met R. Aharon [the son of the recipient of the letter] who was suffering from starvation, and he urges him send him food packages. He goes on to ask him to attend to his brother R. Yitzchak Teitelbaum of Rzeszów [the uncle of the recipient of the letter] and to make sure he is sent him (kosher) food packages from the United States.

On the last page, R. Aharon writes his own address in Nyírbátor and that of his brother R. Yitzchak Teitelbaum in Rzeszów – "in the German occupied territory".

This letter was apparently sent to the United States [or reached there]. On the leaf is a stamp with the seal of the Ahavat Torah yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York.

Rebbe Aharon Teitelbaum, Rabbi of Volova, author of Tehillot Aharon (1881-1944; perished in the Holocaust), the youngest son of Rebbe Yisrael Yaakov Yukel Teitelbaum, Rabbi of Volova, and grandson of Rebbe Yekutiel Yehudah Teitelbaum, the Yitav Lev of Sighet. He was a son-in-law of the Berach Moshe of Satmar. In 1905 he was appointed head of the Volova Beit Din, and there he directed an important yeshiva for young students. After his father's passing in 1924, he began to serve in his place as Rabbi of Volova. In 1941, after the passing of his brother R. Naftali Teitelbaum (in 1938), he was appointed to his place as Rabbi of Nyírbátor. He led his community for forty years, and stoutly opposed Haskalah and Zionist ideas. He was a fierce opponent of Agudat Yisrael.

[1] double leaf (3 written pages). 23 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Folds and creases. Tears and open tears. Repaired with tape.