Armin (Abba) Frieder was rabbi
in the “status quo” community at Zwolen and the Neolog community
of Nove Mesto nad Vahom, Slovakia, from 1938. He was an active
Zionist. In 1942, he became a member of the underground Working
Group in Bratislava, established to save the surviving Jews
of Slovakia, and Frieder was the group's contact with Slovak
government circles. Under his influence the home for aged in
Nove Mesto became a refuge before deportations. After the suppression
of the Slovak uprising in the autumn of 1944, he found refuge
in a Catholic monastery. At the end of the Second World War,
he was appointed Chief Rabbi of Slovakia.
