Rabbi Chajkin was soon deported to Germany, and the yeshiva was forced to close its doors in 1939 until the end of World War II.

[1] The Yeshiva reopened its doors after the war in June 1945 in the thermal resort town of Aix-les-Bains, again led by Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Chajkin after his release from German captivity.

The new yeshiva welcomed numerous young survivors of the Nazi concentration camps, and many Jewish children who had been hidden with non-Jewish families to escape deportation during the Holocaust.

[1] Rabbi Moshe Yitzchok Gewirtzman, the founder of the Hasidic Dynasty of Pshevorsk, spent several summers in Aix-les-Bains, and formed a close relationship with the yeshiva.

[6] The yeshiva has several educational divisions, including a high school division featuring a full general studies curriculum accredited by the French Ministry of Education, in addition to its traditional yeshiva curriculum of Talmudic studies and Jewish law.