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Letter to Anka
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19 August 1943 Today, dear Anka, is the anniversary of your Golgotha, tomorrow the anniversary of your death. A year has passed since I last saw you. You see, Anka, I do not believe in God and never…

Contributor:

Calel Perechodnik

Places:

Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Death, Jewish quarters, Holocaust, Family, Afterlife

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Wills, Testaments & Bequests
Sefer ha-tsava’ah (Book of the Testament): Rituals on Dying and Mourning
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My beloved wife Esther Sheindel, may you live long, since we, on account of our affection, once made a pact, as it were, that if one of us dies, the other should implore God’s mercy for the other to…

Contributor:

Naphtali ha-Kohen Katz

Places:

Russian Empire (Ukraine)

Date:

ca. 1718

Subjects:

Will & testament, Death, Women, Family, Finance

Categories:

Law, Wills, Testaments & Bequests, Firsthand Accounts