HaGaon Reb Aharon Kotler was born in Sislovitz, White Russia in 5652 (1891) and passed away in New York City, on 2 Koslev, 5723 (1962). During his years in Europe -- as Rosh Yeshivah in Kletzk, and his later years in America -- As Rosh Yeskivah of Bais Medrash Govoha, in Lakewood, New Jersey, he was a dominant Torah personality.
==Rabbis Wasserman, Blau, and Kotler==
[[Image:Rabbis_Wasserman_Blau_and_Kotler.jpg|thumb|Rabbis Wasserman, Blau, and Kotler]]
In the summer of 1937 at the third convention of the rabbinical leaders of Agudath Israel held in Mariband, which included hundreds of rabbis, heads of yeshiva religious academies and grand rabbis of Chassidic communities from a number of countries. Rabbi Aharon Kotler attended this convention.
