Letter from Agudat Yisrael, signed by R. Yitzchak Meir Levin (son-in-law of the Imrei Emet of Ger). Jerusalem, "Monday, Vayechi, 13th Tevet 1942" [December 21].

Addressed to R. Avraham Yeshayah Karelitz, the Chazon Ish, with an invitation to a "small assembly of Torah leaders who are in Eretz Israel", supposed to take place in the offices of Agudat Yisrael in Jerusalem on Thursday, 16th Tevet, in order to plan rescue efforts from the Holocaust, when the "terrible, frightening news of European Jewry" arrived. R. Yitzchak Meir Levin writes that "we are trying… to rouse the nations of the world to do something to save the Jews, and although our protests are making an impression in the world – the events overtly show us that we have no one to rely upon but our Father in Heaven".

On verso of title page, kvittel inscriptions handwritten by the Chazon Ish [the Chazon Ish used to write down names of men and women with their mothers' names to prayer for their healing and salvation].

[1] leaf. Official stationery. 22 cm. Typewritten, with handwritten corrections and signature. Good-fair condition. Dark stains. Wear and folding marks. Open tears to folds.