However, both Moshe and Aharon Leib were called to report to the army, and they tried hard to obtain exemptions, eating and drinking little to weaken them and taking long walks to help them lose weight.

Aryeh Leib Glickson, Moshe's cousin (his mother Sara was the only daughter of Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik), joined the yeshiva as well a short time after, as he too was avoiding the draft.

[4] In 1940, the Swiss government, suspecting them of espionage, interred 300 Jewish refugees in a resort-turned-labor camp near Basel called Schonburg, where they were forced to lay railroad tracks.

Moshe was discharged from the labor camp and soon traveled to Mandatory Palestine and joined the Lomza Yeshiva of Rabbi Yechiel Mordechai Gordon in Petah Tikvah.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he worked to establish Yeshivat Torat Chaim in Moscow [HE] to bring unaffiliated Jews back to Judaism (this is known as kiruv).