Editing Michael Dov Weissmandl (section)

{{Short description|Hungarian rabbi (1903–1957)}}
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| honorific-prefix = Rabbi 
| name = Michael Dov Weissmandl{{efn|name=names}}
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| caption         = Weissmandl before the war
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| yeshiva = Nitra Yeshiva, [[Mount Kisco, New York]]
| yeshivaposition = [[Rosh Yeshiva]]
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| began = 1946
| ended = 29 November 1957
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| birth_date      = {{birth date|1903|10|25|df=y}}
| birth_place     = [[Debrecen]], [[Hungary]]
| death_date      = {{death date and age|1957|11|29|1903|10|25|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Mount Kisco, New York]]
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| denomination = [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]]
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| parents = Yosef and Gella Weissmandl
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*Bracha Rachel Ungar 
*Leah Teitelbaum
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'''Michael Dov Weissmandl''' ({{langx|yi|מיכאל בער ווייסמאנדל}}) {{efn|Also known as '''Michael Ber Weissmandl''', he took the forename '''Chaim''' after surviving the Holocaust. His surname is sometimes spelled '''Weissmandel''' or '''Weismandel'''.|name=names}} (25 October 1903{{spaced ndash}}29 November 1957) was an Orthodox [[rabbi]] of the [[Oberlander Jews]] of present-day western Slovakia.<ref>(September 26, 2019). [https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/rabbi-weissmandla-holocaust-hero-602967 Rabbi Weissmandl, a Holocaust hero], ''Jerusalem Post''.</ref> Along with [[Gisi Fleischmann]] he was the leader of the [[Bratislava Working Group]] which attempted to save European Jews from deportation to [[Nazi]] [[death camps]] during [[the Holocaust]] and was the first person to urge Allied powers to bomb  the railways leading to concentration camp gas chambers.<ref name=Forward>(September 2, 2021). [https://forward.com/fast-forward/475058/son-of-famed-rabbi-weissmandl-among-victims-of-new-york-flooding/ Son of famed rabbi among victims of New York flooding], ''Forward''</ref> Managing to escape from a sealed [[Holocaust trains|cattle car]] headed for [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]] in 1944, he later emigrated to America where he established a yeshiva and self-sustaining agricultural community in New York known as the Yeshiva Farm Settlement. Accusing the Zionist Jewish Agency of having frustrated his rescue efforts during the Holocaust, he became a staunch opponent of Zionism after the war.<ref>[https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Weissmandel_Mikhael_Dov_Ber Weissmandel, Mikha’el Dov Ber],  YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.</ref>