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Questionnaires of Soliciting Testimonies / Ktav Heter - Holocaust Agunot

• Nine questionnaires for soliciting testimonies concerning the death of women or men to permit them to remarry. Questions regarding the time of the Holocaust, the concentration and extermination camps (such as, "To which side did they send him in Auschwitz?”, "Was he seen in the bathhouse there?", "Did he have small children with him?"). [Hungary], 1946-1952. Printed and filled in by hand. Handwritten testimonies and various details, signatures and stamps of Hungarian rabbis. • Ktav Heter (Writ of permission) for the marriage of a man whose wife was murdered in the Holocaust, by the "Special Bet Din for Agunot regulations". Budapest, 1946. Typewritten form and completion of details.
10 items, varied size. Good condition.