Harav HaGaon Shmuel Berenbaum ZTVK”L

Via email:

My nephew from NY was one of the Rosh Yeshiva's close talmid (student). He told me the following:

"Right before Reb Shmuel Birnbaum, zs'kl, passed away, his sons came to his bed side and asked him: "Avi Mori (father teacher), we have to know who our father elects to take over as Rosh Yeshiva of the Mirrer Yeshiva."

Reb Birnbaum responded: "No one, I'll be back in a few months".