Gershon Liebman (1905 – 8 March 1997)[1] was a rabbi, Holocaust survivor, and leader of the Novardok Yeshiva movement after World War II.

[5] Before World War II, he Rabbi Avraham Yoffen were the rabbinical leaders of the Novardok Yeshiva branch in Białystok.

[5] In 1941, before he was sent to the camps, the Russians had already sent the entire Novardok Yeshiva of Białystok to Siberia, and the Germans were forcing Jews to dig their own graves at Ponar and shooting them into the open pits.

He collected as many ration cards as he could for the yeshiva staff and saved many people that way.

[3] When he was brought into the camp and his clothes and belongings were taken away from him, he made the acquaintance with one of the workers who would be able to obtain for him a pair of tefillin in exchange for his ration of bread.

Once he was having heart palpitations and begged some of the other inmates to lend him a bit of their rations to preserve his life, to be paid back later.

Liebman found an old synagogue in Hanover with a full set of Mishnayos, and divided it up so the boys would have something to study.

[9] When Liebman obtained funding from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to set up a yeshiva, and eventually a full-fledged community, he set his sights on rural France, far from the distractions of the big city and close to the forest he felt was a critical element in full-blown service of God.

He had no question that the funding he secured from the Joint was God's personal stamp of approval for the project.

[9] Chaim Grade based the character Hersh Rasseyner on Liebman in his short story, "My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner," which describes the chance meeting of a Holocaust survivor with an old friend from the mussar Yeshiva.

[14] The narrator has lost his faith, while Rasseyner has continued to lead a pious and devoted religious life.