Yisroel Moshe Olewski

Rabbi Yisroel Moshe Olewski (1916–1966) was the rabbi of Radziejów, Poland prior to the Holocaust. After the Holocaust, he was one of the rabbis of Bergen-Belsen and the Chief Rabbi of Celle. Later, after emigrating to the United States he was the founder of the Gerrer yeshiva in Brooklyn.

Biography Rabbi Yisroel Moshe Olewski was born in Osięciny on 26 September 1916. His father was Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh and his mother was Henna Rivka, the daughter of Rabbi Dovid Shlomo Zalman Neiman who was the Rabbi of Osięciny. The family were followers of the Agudath Israel movement. Rabbi Olewski's father died when he was 6 years old. He was sent to study at yeshivas in Włocławek, Warsaw and Lublin, completing his education in 1939 at Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin. When he became of age, Rabbi Olewski married his wife Slata and settled in his father-in-law's hometown of Izbica Kujawska.

Rabbi of Radziejów Rabbi Olewski received his rabbinical ordination from Rabbi Menachem Ziemba. Thereafter he became the rabbi of Radziejów.

Leader of Agudas Yisroel of the British Zone Rabbi Olewski, together with Rabbi Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft and Efraim Londoner were the leaders of Agudas Yisroel of the British Zone. Rabbi Olewski very much engaged in advocating for both the spiritual and physical needs to the Jews in the zone. In his efforts, Rabbi Olewski encouraged couples to marry, and even married off Holocaust survivors in displacement camps, encouraging them to forge a path to future Jewish generations. and was buried in Jerusalem, Israel.