Leading rabbis of the generation, including the Chafetz Chaim, issued appeals for help from Jewish communities.

Wealthy Jews, specifically from Königsberg, East Prussia and Germany, contributed, and although the money helped, it was not enough, and so Rabbi Shulevitz had to leave Lomza on a fundraising trip.

This approach to teaching became famous and the chassidic Rebbes of Ger, Alexander, and Sochatchov all reached out to him for advice so they can set up their own yeshivos.

[4] He therefore traveled to Warsaw and approached Noach Pryłucki, the dean of Jewish members of the Sejm (the Polish parliament) and an old maskil.

In the end, the mashgiach of the yeshiva, Rabbi Moshe Rosenstain, together with a student, bribed the chairman of a local draft board with American dollars.

Rabbi Gordon had been in America at the time and so Jewish families escaping the bombing in other parts of the city took refuge in his house.