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== The Surviving Students Arrive in Montreal ==

At the community's request, [[The Rebbe Rayatz|the Previous Rebbe]] decided to approach the Canadian government to grant visas to the Tomchei Tmimim students in Shanghai. The Canadian government agreed, and out of eighty visas distributed to all yeshiva students in Shanghai at the time, the yeshiva received nine visas. On the 2nd of Cheshvan 1941, nine students who received visas were sent: Yosef Rodal, Aryeh Leib Kramer, Yosef Menachem Mendel Tennenbaum, Reb [[Menachem Zev Greenglass|Menachem Zev Greenglass]], Moshe Eliyahu Gerlitzky, Yitzchok Hendel, Yosef Weinberg, Yosef Tzvi Kotlarsky, and Shmuel Stein.

At the community's request, [[The Rebbe Rayatz|the Previous Rebbe]] decided to approach the Canadian government to grant visas to the Tomchei Tmimim students in Shanghai. The Canadian government agreed, and out of eighty visas distributed to all yeshiva students in Shanghai at the time, the yeshiva received nine visas. On the 2nd of Cheshvan 1941, nine students who received visas were sent: Reb Yosef Rodal, [[Reb Aryeh Leib Kramer]], Reb Yosef Menachem Mendel Tennenbaum, Reb [[Menachem Zev Greenglass|Menachem Zev Greenglass]], Reb Moshe Eliyahu Gerlitzky, Reb Yitzchok Hendel, Reb Yosef Weinberg, Reb Yosef Tzvi Kotlarsky, and Reb Shmuel Stein.

They traveled by ship from Shanghai to San Francisco, California, and from there by bus to Montreal.

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 == The Surviving Students Arrive in Montreal ==
-At the community's request, [[The Rebbe Rayatz|the Previous Rebbe]] decided to approach the Canadian government to grant visas to the Tomchei Tmimim students in Shanghai. The Canadian government agreed, and out of eighty visas distributed to all yeshiva students in Shanghai at the time, the yeshiva received nine visas. On the 2nd of Cheshvan 1941, nine students who received visas were sent: Yosef Rodal, Aryeh Leib Kramer, Yosef Menachem Mendel Tennenbaum, Reb [[Menachem Zev Greenglass|Menachem Zev Greenglass]], Moshe Eliyahu Gerlitzky, Yitzchok Hendel, Yosef Weinberg, Yosef Tzvi Kotlarsky, and Shmuel Stein.
+At the community's request, [[The Rebbe Rayatz|the Previous Rebbe]] decided to approach the Canadian government to grant visas to the Tomchei Tmimim students in Shanghai. The Canadian government agreed, and out of eighty visas distributed to all yeshiva students in Shanghai at the time, the yeshiva received nine visas. On the 2nd of Cheshvan 1941, nine students who received visas were sent: Reb Yosef Rodal, [[Reb Aryeh Leib Kramer]], Reb Yosef Menachem Mendel Tennenbaum, Reb [[Menachem Zev Greenglass|Menachem Zev Greenglass]], Reb Moshe Eliyahu Gerlitzky, Reb Yitzchok Hendel, Reb Yosef Weinberg, Reb Yosef Tzvi Kotlarsky, and Reb Shmuel Stein.
 They traveled by ship from Shanghai to San Francisco, California, and from there by bus to Montreal.