R' Meir Meyer Steinberg, A.B.D. Chartkov and London

Meir Halevi Steinberg was born in Poland on April 1st, 1906. He was the Rabbi of Czortkow (in the northern part of Galician Podolia, now the Ukraine) until 1939 and was in the Old City of Jerusalem from 1940 to 1942 and was then the Senior Jewish Chaplain to the Polish Forces in the Middle East, until 1946. His brother, Rabbi Baruch Steinberg was Chief Rabbi of the Polish army when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. Baruch Steinberg was murdered by the Russians at Katyn.

Rabbi Steinberg came to London after the war and was rabbi of Notting Hill Synagogue from 1948 to 1952, and Brixton Synagogue from 1952 to 1966. He became a Dayan (Judge) of the London Beth Din (Ecclesiastical Court) in 1956.

See: https://jewishmiscellanies.com/2020/11/09/sefer-lekutei-meir-by-day...