User:Rentsy/Eliyahu Boruch Kamai

Rabbi Eliyahu Boruch Kamai (Peace be upon him) was born 1860 in Shkud, which is near Kovno, now called Kaunas, right in the center of Lithiania.

He became Rosh Yeshiva Mir, and under him Mir grew to become a great center of Torah study, with students from all over the world.

During the Second World War he did not flee with his yeshiva to Vilna and from there to Keidan, and so perished in Mir on 8 Heshvan, 5702 (1942) May the Lord avenge his blood.

http://books.google.com/books?id=11f9xBbOBBEC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=Eliyahu+Boruch+Kamai&source=bl&ots=wSCylEySxH&sig=h0zoNfMYI9q4XT56W7pu_XIbjsE&hl=en&ei=n74tStytKpH0tAPMv6S8CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2

http://home.comcast.net/~acassel/keidan/history/kagan3.html