Amazingly, on the first try he got the bulls eye. I believe he was forced to run the (gauntlet)
I just checked the book “the Steipler” page 53. He was not punished.
over the border into Poland(?). Yes it was into Poland.
They hired a guide, who came with his daughter.. The proposed guide was a woman, & the Steipler refused to set out page 63
he kept on pushing off removing the coat, until it would become pikuach nefesh, in freezing Russian winter. He never removed it. I remember hearing/seeing that it was then that his hearing was impaired but on page 26 there is reference to this problem as a young bachur.
Re: Shatnez . He wore a summer uniform all winter.
There is no mention of the “warmest night ever”! in the book