Somebody saw R' Gershon crying at the Levaya of R' Chaim Ozer Zatzal. He was very impressed, because R' Gershon was extremely pained by the Petira of R' Chaim Ozer, and this person saw how "real" he was, and how he truly appreciated a Gadol B’yisroel. The Madrega of R' Gershon is impossible for us to understand. A person who was "drenched" in learning Mussar, and was 24/7 totally looking for: ֵﬠוֹתצ ideas how he can break Middos and do Zikkui HaRabbim, is Mamash in a different world.
When R' Ahron Kotler Zatzal had left London, R' Gershon Zatzal asked the: א יָנְ סַ כְ אַ host not to change the linen, because he wanted to sleep on the linen that was used by R' Ahron. There is a picture with him and R' Ahron, and R' Gershon is Mamash standing in awe; he seemed to be full of excitement that he was Zoche to see R' Ahron. R' Gershon did the impossible, and he had a Yeshiva in the Vilna ghetto. He had about 25 Bachurim and I knew the bottom half.
Like R' Gurwitz Zatzal and R' Langleben Zatzal. They were Mamash Tzaddikim of Boro Park, and there was nobody even near their Madregos. The upper half, ם מָ ם דָ קֹ נְ ה' יִ may Hashem avenge their blood, were unusual: prodigies in יםנִ יָ צוּמְ Torah and Avoda, whose Madregos were totally in a different world. When R' Gershon was in a concentration camp near Vilna, he refused to eat anything that wasn't 100% kosher. He was: ליקֵ מֵ lenient for everyone else with all kinds of Kulos (leniencies).
Especially any kind of food or soup that had to do with meat or chicken. His friends noticed that he was turning into a vegetable, and they begged him and even tried to force him to eat; it was Pikuach Nefesh Mamash. He hadn't eaten for three days, and they thought it was all over, when suddenly a truckload of women showed up. One of them was from the Yeshiva, and she was an A-1 cook, whom the Germans employed.
She recognized R' Gershon, and she bought a new, clean pot, and cooked mashed potatoes for him. R' Gershon noticed that the women in the truck had their hair shorn off, and he exclaimed that it was a punishment for not covering their hair. People noticed that R' Gershon had a special Siyata Dishmaya, and Hashem treated him differently than everyone else.
