Rav Hillel Lichtenstein Krasna Rov

Rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein (1910-1979), grandson of Rabbi Hillel Lash of Kolomyya. Served as junior rabbi of Crasna, under his father Rabbi Bendit Lichtenstein Rabbi of Crasna. Son-in-law of the Gaon of Shamloy Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Erenreich. After the Holocaust, he established a yeshiva in the DP camp in Landsberg (Germany). Afterwards, he moved to Paris and subsequently to Williamsburg New York where he established his Beis Midrash and was one of the leaders of the ultra-Orthodox circles in the US. In his book Kavanas HaLev, The Rabbi of Crasna writes a booklet Rani Akara on his responsa concerning Holocaust agunos where he also brings foundations heard from the "Exceptional Gaon of Niemce author of Be'er Chaim Mordechai".