Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Yeshivas in World War II" in English language version.
With the German invasion of Soviet Union during World War II, the yeshiva closed and many of its students and teachers were killed.
My mother's father, Rabbi Chaim Feldberg, was also a talmid of Torah Vodaath [in the United States], and was a classmate of Harav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, zt'l. Rav Scheinberg went on to learn in Mir in Europe, while my grandfather went to Radin to learn from the Chofetz Chaim zt'l.
When the Telshe Yeshiva was established by Harav Eliya Meir Bloch and Harav Mottel Katz, zichronam levrachah, in Cleveland in 1940....
many of the students and townsfolk escaped to Vilna...
Chiune Sugihara, who died in 1986, ignored orders from Tokyo while posted to Kaunas (then Kovno) in 1940 and helped Jews flee the Nazis...
