He was a major driving force behind the exodus of thousands of young men in Mir, Kletsk, Radin, Novhardok, and other yeshivas, via Russia and Japan to Shanghai at the outbreak of World War II.
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Warren Kozak describes the episode when the Japanese military governor of the city sent for the Jewish community leaders.
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