Chaim Yaakov Stein (March 29, 1913 - June 29, 2011) is best known for leading the Telshe Yeshiva at two times in its history: Cleveland and Wickliffe.
During World War II he was with those students who fled the Yeshiva, and spent time in labor camps in Siberia.
The original faculty, their families, and most of the student body who chose to be left behind in Europe were killed in Lithuania by Nazi forces and Lithuanian collaborators.
Escaping to Russia as the war-ravaged Eastern Europe, another war was taking place in the Pacific - the very direction that the students led by Rabbi Chaim Stein were headed.
The group had somehow acquired visas from the renowned Chiune Sugihara, and became beneficiaries of his admirable action to risk his life to enable people from war-torn Europe to seek refuge elsewhere in the world.