Founded during World War I, Shimon Shkop became rosh yeshiva (dean) in 1920.

As part of his job, he was supposed to give students mussar (rebuke) when they did something wrong.

[4] Shraga Feivel Hindis, a son-in-law of Shkop, assisted his father-in-law in running the yeshiva.

Among the "lions" were Moshe Zaretsky and Yisrael Zev Gustman, future rosh yeshiva in Ramailes.

[2] After the Soviet Union occupied Poland in 1939, the yeshiva disbanded and fled to Vilnius.