He was the last head of the Jewish community in Nizhankovitse. Murdered by shots in the Holocaust with the Rabbi and other Jews in the synagouge (based on testimony page submitted to Yad Vashem Holocuast Museum In Jerusalem and testimony of Dr. Pablo Hϋbner, grandnephew of Israel Lehrer)
Abram Jakob Lahrer was a chassidic Rabbi and one of the cofounders of Jeshivat Chahmi Lublin one of the largest most important Jewish institutions in Europe at its time. He was also Chief of Jewish Community of Nizhankovitse, Nizankowice or Nyzhankovychi, and Town Hall Councellor in Behalf of Jews. Member of Kollel Galicia.
Buried in Mount of Olives Cemetery in Jerusalem, Israel.