 This also changed, when the Soviets forbade the renting out of rooms to yeshiva students.Bloch responded by dispersing the yeshiva to five surrounding towns and arranging for members of the faculty to travel from town to town to deliver classes to his students.On Tuesday July 15, 1941 (20th Tammuz), Nazi "Einsatzgruppen" and local Lithuanian sympathizers massacred the male population of Telz, including Bloch himself and the faculty of the yeshiva.