Editing Michael Dov Weissmandl (section)

==Post-war America==

===Personal recovery===
After the war, Weissmandl arrived in the United States having lost his family and having been unable to save Slovak Jewry. At first, he was so distraught that he would pound the walls and cry bitterly on what had befallen his people.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/fv5769 |title=Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Siegmunt Forst |access-date=2015-10-04 |publisher=Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum}}</ref> Later he remarried and had children, but he never forgot his family in Europe and suffered from depression his entire life because of the Holocaust.

His second marriage was to Leah Teitelbaum (1924/5&ndash;9 April 2009), a daughter of Rabbi Chaim Eliyahu Teitelbaum and a native of [[Berehove|Beregszász]], Hungary. With his second wife, Weissmandl had five children.<ref name="Hamodia">"Rebbetzin Leah Weissmandl, ''a"h''." [[Hamodia]], U.S. Community News, p. B20. 23-04-2009.</ref>

===Establishment of an American yeshiva===
:''See: [[Yeshiva of Nitra]]''
In November 1946, Weissmandl and his brother-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Moshe Ungar, re-established the Nitra Yeshiva in [[Somerville, New Jersey]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thejewishpress.com/displayContent_new.cfm?contentid=20133&mode=a&sectionid=20&contentname=My_Machberes&recnum=5&subid=20727 |title=Mishkoltzer Nitra Chasunah |last=Tannenbaum |first=Rabbi Gershon |access-date=2010-03-16 |date=2006-12-13 |publisher=[[The Jewish Press]] }}{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> gathering surviving students from the original Nitra Yeshiva. With the help of Rabbi [[Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz]], Weissmandl bought the Brewster estate in [[Mount Kisco]], in [[Westchester County]], [[New York (state)|New York]] and moved his Yeshiva there in 1949. There he established a self-sustaining agricultural community known as the "Yeshiva Farm Settlement". At first, this settlement was not welcome by its neighbors, but in a town hall meeting, [[Hanson W. Baldwin#Personal life|Helen Bruce Baldwin]] (1907–1994) of nearby [[Chappaqua]], wife of New York Times military correspondent and [[1943 Pulitzer Prize#Journalism awards|Pulitzer Prize winner]], [[Hanson W. Baldwin]], impressed by Weissmandl, defended its establishment and wrote a letter-to-the-editor to the New York Times regarding it. Weissmandl designed the community's yeshiva to conform with [[Talmud]]ic accounts of agricultural settlements, where a man would study [[Torah]] continuously until an age suitable for marriage, whereupon he would farm during the day and study in the evenings. While this novel approach was not fully realized, the yeshiva flourished. Currently, the settlement is known as the Nitra community.
(See also [[Kashau (Hasidic dynasty)]]).

===Later life===
During his later years, Weissmandl suffered from chronic [[heart disease]] and was frequently hospitalized. He suffered a severe heart attack in the early winter of 1957 and was hospitalized for several weeks. Upon his release, he attended the yeshiva's [[fundraising]] banquet, and then was readmitted to the hospital. His health deteriorated and he died on Friday, 29 November 1957 (6 [[Kislev]] 5718) at the age of 54.<ref name="biography" /> His second wife never remarried.<ref name="Hamodia" />

Weissmandl is buried in the Beth Israel Cemetery - also known as Woodbridge Memorial Gardens - in [[Woodbridge Township, New Jersey|Woodbridge New Jersey]], in the Khal Adas Yereim [[Vien (Hasidic community)|Vien]] section.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kevarim.com/rabbi-chaim-michael-dov-weissmandl/|title=Rabbi Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl &#124; kevarim.com|date=January 9, 2009}}</ref> On 1 September 2021, his son Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Weissmandl died aged 69 in floodwaters in [[Elmsford, New York]].<ref name=Forward/>