Letter handwritten and signed by R. Yosef Dov Ber HaLevi Soloveitchik. [Jerusalem, ca. 1944].
Addressed to R. Shmuel Szczedrowicki, with a request to send aid packages to two students in Siberia. Signed by R. Yosef Dov, with regards from his father (the style of the letter is characteristic of his father, R. Yitzchak Ze'ev of Brisk, and the letter was probably written at his behest).

R. Yosef Dov (R. Yoshe Ber) HaLevi Soloveitchik (1916-1981), eldest son of R. Yitzchak Ze'ev, the Brisker Rav. During the Holocaust, he immigrated with his father to Jerusalem, and assisted him in founding the Brisk Yeshiva in Jerusalem, which he later headed. One of the most illustrious Torah scholars of the previous generation.
The recipient, R. Shmuel Szczedrowicki (1907-1978), a head of Agudath Israel in Tel Aviv. During the Holocaust, he was sent to the Far East on rescue missions on behalf of Agudath Israel to assist refugees in the Far East, Siberia and throughout Russia.

[1] leaf. 21 cm. Approx. 20 autograph lines. Good condition. Folding marks.