Letter of recommendation on behalf of the Bauchur Nathan Farber of Nitra,

The Gaon Rabbi Shmuel David HaLevi Ungar was the rosh yeshivah and rabbi of Nitra, Slovakia. He was the president of the Orthodox communities, a Gaon and a Tzaddik, and taught Torah to thousands. He was  “President of the Charedi Communities of Czechoslovakia” and was a leader of the Agudas Yisrael

Born in 1886 to Rabbi Yosef Moshe of Pishtian. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Noah Baruch Fisher of Preshov. He served as dayan in Kromnitz in 1914, and rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Tirnau in 1918. In 1931 he was appointed Rabbi of Nitra, where he became famous as successor to Rabbi Avraham Aharon Katz. He also led the yeshiva there, which was the last yeshiva to survive in Slovakia during the Shoah (it was called “the Jewish Vatican”).  

After the yeshivah was dismantled, he escaped to the forests and to the mountains, where he died of starvation and weakness while still hiding from the Nazis in the Calisch forest in early 1945 Hy''d. Author of Na’ot Deshe.

He was the father-in-law of the Admo"r of Sanz-Klausenberg, author of Shefa Chaim, z"l, and of the Gaon Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl, a Holocaust rescue activist and founder of the Nitra yeshivah in the United States. 

23 X 15 Cm. Filing holes, age stains.