The Steipler Gaon once said about about Rav Chaim Kreiswirth that even 200 years ago he would have been regarded as a Gadol . Admired as a tzaddik and famous as an illuy, Rav Chaim Kreiswirth was born in Poland in 1918. He gained fame at a very young age as the Cracover (Cracow) Illuy. He dazzled the brilliant Rav Meir Shapiro and was admitted into Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin where he stood out even by their lofty standards of Bekius and Charifus. The gemara, both Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi which he was said to have know by heart as a young man, was part and parcel of Rav Kreiswirth's personality and his soul. Every thought and every conversation was driven by the precious words of the Talmud.
He was fortunate to come of age in pre-war Europe where he was privileged to meet and speak in learning with the famous Geonim of those times including Rav Shimon Shkop, Rav Yosef Rosen (the Rogatchover Gaon), Rav Elchonon Wasserman, the Imrei Emes of Gur, Rav Menachem Ziemba and the Belzer Rav Rav Aharon Rokeach. He received Smicha from the Marcheshes, Rav Chanoch Henich Eigess.
After escaping Poland early in the war, he fled to Lithuania where he married the daughter of the Rav Avrohom Grodzinski the Mashgiach of Slabodka. Shortly thereafter he and his young wife escaped the Nazi inferno and made their way to Eretz Yisroel where his Torah knowledge and personality earned the friendship of such Gedolim as the Brisker Rav, the Chazon Ish, the Steipler Gaon, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, and ylct"a HaRav Yosef Shalom Eliashiv shlit"a.
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