This bill authorizes Congress to posthumously award a gold medal to Rabbi Michoel Ber Weissmandl in recognition of his heroic actions during World War II. Rabbi Weissmandl, a Hungarian-born Jewish leader who lived in Slovakia, established an underground "Working Group" that raised funds to negotiate with Nazi officials to delay deportations, helped obtain visas to protect Jews, and was instrumental in documenting Nazi atrocities including the Auschwitz Protocols and organizing rescue efforts like the Kindertransport. After the war, he immigrated to America and founded the Yeshiva of Nitra in New York, which became the first major yeshiva campus in the United States and influenced the development of Jewish educational institutions across the country. The bill directs the Speaker of the House and President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the medal's presentation, with the Treasury Secretary responsible for designing and striking the medal. The bill also allows the Treasury Secretary to produce and sell duplicate bronze medals at cost, with any recipient to be designated by his family committee.
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