Correspondence of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) regarding religious and halachic issues in the Jewish communities in north and east of the Netherlands, 1942-1943

Correspondence of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) regarding religious and halachic issues in the Jewish communities in north and east of the Netherlands, 1942-1943 Correspondence of the chief rabbis of the Drenthe, Friesland and Gelderland districts with the various departments of the Joodse Raad and individuals regarding halachic issues such as marriage, divorce, especially issuing a Get (Jewish divorce) during war, births, deaths, burial, cemeteries, Pesach kashrut and other; The file also includes: Ketubahs of marriages that were performed in Westerbork (pp. 1, 174-186); Circumcision certificates from Westerbork (pp. 3-5, 170,171); Version of a conditional Get that will be considered valid in the instance a husband disappears during the war (p. 6); Rabbinical clarifications in Amsterdam (p. 7) German version (p. 145), 14 July 1942; List of deaths and births in Westerbork (p. 15) March-May 1943; Memorandum of Rabbi Levisson to teachers in the area he lives asking that they inform young people before or after a wedding about the possibility of a conditional Get (p. 18), August 1942; Letter of Rabbi Levisson to the Joodse Raad warning about the building of a crematorium in Westerbork (p. 19), 09 November 1942.