This nar­ra­tive gives us a detailed chron­i­cle of the tur­bu­lent life of Rebbe Aryeh Leibish Gottes­man ZT”L, begin­ning from his child­hood years, with the next chap­ters bring­ing alive the years of pain he endured in the most hor­ren­dous peri­od of the Holo­caust. It con­tin­ue with the high­ly inter­est­ing peri­od detail­ing his for­ma­tive years in Amer­i­ca, which gives us a glimpse of the post-trau­ma that a war sur­vivor lived with — his scars, pain, and loss that accom­pa­nied him for the next sev­en­ty years. When he was still but a child and a young bochur, lit­tle Leibish fought fero­cious­ly against life’s odds to learn Torah in times that anti­semitism was com­mon in the lit­tle town in Czech where he lived. After suf­fer­ing all the hor­rors of Auschwitz, Dachau, and more, when he lost both his par­ents and fam­i­ly, except for one sur­viv­ing broth­er, R’ Leibish threw upon him­self again with hap­pi­ness and for­ti­tude to accept the yoke of learn­ing Torah. First in the city of Ser­da­he­li and then in the famed Nitra Yeshi­va in Amer­i­ca, where he became one of the most notable and close stu­dents of the renowned Hagaon Hatzad­dik Rebbe Michoel Ber Weiss­man­del ZT”L. He stood out in the front line of Tal­mudei Cha­chomim of the first gen­er­a­tion after the war. The next step in life was when with his dili­gence and per­sis­tence he grew to be a major Gaon that illu­mi­nat­ed the path for many stu­dents and breathed a life of Torah up to his final moment.