Lot 329
Ketubah from the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp, 1946
Ketubah recording the marriage of Shlomo ben Aharon HaKohen and Sheindel bat Eliezer. Bergen-Belsen, April 9, 1946. Hebrew and English.
Printed ketubah, filled in by hand, for a wedding ceremony held at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. At the top is an illustration with Stars of David and the inscription "Bergen Belsen" in Yiddish. At the bottom is the stamp – "Beth Din – Rabbinate Bergen-Belsen".
On the ketubah's verso is a shortened English version, beneath which is the signature and ink stamp of Rabbi Joel Halpern, the stamp that appears on the Hebrew side, and the stamp "Central Jewish Committee, Bergen-Belsen".
Approx. 18X28.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and blemishes. Folding marks. Tears and open tears along folding marks and at the margins (with damage to text), reinforced with strips of adhesive tape. The handwritten inscriptions and the ink stamps are faded and partly erased.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
