Rav Abba Dunner, the director of the Council of European Rabbis, who had just returned from visiting the bochurim in Japan, spoke in Yiddish and English. As the head of the leading European rabbinical organization, he has helped Jews in difficult spots around the world. His friend, the Horodenka rebbe of Manchester, asked him to travel to Japan with the rebbe's brother, Rav Chaim Dovid Yosef Weiss, the Satmar dayan in Antwerp. Acquainted with Rav Weiss's mesirus nefesh to help prisoners around the world,
