Rabbi Yehudah Chitrik was born in 5659 (1899) in
Krasnaluk, a small Jewish shtetel in Russia, to a prominent
Lubavitch family that traces its roots to the foremost
Chassidim, of Rav Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the first of the Chabad Rebbeim. At the age of 14, he began studying in Yeshivas Tomchei Temiinim in Lubavitch. For the next twelve years, together with the Yeshivah, he traveled to many diffirent communities, for the difficulties caused by World
War I, the Bolshevik revolution, and the economic pressures
to which the Jews were subjected compelled the Yeshivah to
shift locale frequently.