Editing Michael Dov Weissmandl (section)

==Early life==
Michael Ber was born in [[Debrecen]], [[Hungary]] on 25 October 1903 (4 ''[[Cheshvan]]'' 5664 on the [[Hebrew calendar]]) to Yosef Weissmandl, a [[shochet]]. A few years later his family moved to Tyrnau (now [[Trnava]], Slovakia). In 1931 he moved to [[Nitra]] to study under Rabbi [[Shmuel Dovid Ungar]], whose daughter, Bracha Rachel, he married in 1937.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oxfordchabad.org/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/1378317/jewish/A-Rabbi-from-the-Bodleian-Library-who-saved-Jews-from-the-Holocaust.htm |title=Rabbi Michael Weissmandl: A Rabbi from Oxford's Bodleian Library who saved Jews from the Holocaust |last=Brackman |first=Rabbi Eli |publisher=Oxford Chabad Society |year=2011 |access-date=7 May 2011}}</ref> He was thus an ''[[Oberlander Jews|oberlander]]'' (from the central highlands of Europe), a non-[[Hasidic]] Jew.

Weissmandl was a scholar and an expert at deciphering ancient manuscripts. In order to carry out his research of these manuscripts, he traveled to the [[Bodleian Library]] in [[Oxford]], [[England]]. It is related that he was treated with great respect by the Chief Librarian of the Bodleian after an episode when he correctly identified the author of a manuscript that had been misattributed by the library's scholars.<ref name="biography">{{cite web |url=http://www.weissmandl.org/TheUnheededCry/UnheededCryText.htm |title=The Unheeded Cry, Chapter 1: A Biographical Sketch |last=Fuchs |first=Abraham |year=1984 |publisher=Mesorah Publications, Ltd.}}</ref>