us-005578-irn523340
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
date: circa 1945
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: heb
has or had some members with language: fra
has or had subject: 686
has or had subject: 278
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn523340
record resource extent: oversize box 1
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Contains two notebooks, handwritten and hardbound. The notebooks were written in displaced persons camps in Germany and Cyprus by three rabbis (sometimes the rabbinate from Stuttgart is used). The notebooks contain notes on permits for"aguno" (women whose husbands had disappeared or who had died without witnesses, and men who could not prove that they are single or widowed) to marry and a list of names of women who are permitted to marry. The notebooks also contain testimonies of survivors regarding the circomstances surrounding the death of the above mentioned spouses. Each notebook contains 160-170 pages with handwritten notes; some documents (such as telegrams) are inserted between pages.
title: Yakov Neuman papers