Rav Dayan Eliezer Posen

Rav Dayan Eliezer Posen was born in Frankfurt to Rav Gershon, who was appointed Dayan of the IRG (Jewish Religious Society) by Rav Shimshon Refoel Hirsch. As a bochur, he learned in Pupa, Hungary, then returned to Frankfurt and married Chulda Falk in 1923. After his marriage, he became Maggid Shiur in the Breuer Yeshiva and succeeded his father as Rav of the kehilla in 1932. In 1938, he escaped the growing Nazi menace by fleeing to England. He was appointed Dayan of the Adas Yisrael shul in 1945. His brother was Rav Shimon Yisrael Posen, the Shoproner Rav of New York.