Ketubah from Deggendorf displaced persons camp

Identifier
irn85442
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.466.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn85442

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection. The acquisition of this collection was made possible by the Crown Family.

Funding Note: The acquisition of this document was made possible by the Crown Family.

Purchase, Kedem Auction House, Ltd. 2014.

Scope and Content

One ketubah, recording the wedding of Moshe Wasserman and Rachel Landa, at the Deggendorf displaced persons camp, 20 October 1945. Text in Hebrew, with ink stamp from "Jewish Committee, D.P. Camp 7, Deggendorf." The groom is listed as being the son of Meir Wasserman, and the bride as being the daughter of Mordechai Landa, with witnesses Mendel Gorski and Meir Blumshtayn present, and Rabbi Refael ben Yehudah Halevi officiating.

Corporate Bodies

  • Deggendorf (Displaced persons camp)

Subjects

  • Jewish refugees--Germany--Deggendorf.

Genre

  • Ketubah.
  • Document
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