Four letters of recommendation (rabbinical ordination) for Rabbi Shimon Rapheika, who served in rabbinate of two congregations in Displaced Persons camps of “She’erit HaPleita” in St. Otilien (Munich, Germany).
Three letters by Rabbi Shmuel Abba Saniag, chairman of Committee of Union of Rabbis in American region of Germany, Munich, 1948-1949. Additional letter by Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik HaLevi Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Israel. Jerusalem, Tamuz 1953. An interesting letter (concerning the absorption of Yeshiva students in the U.S.A) from Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Tabachnick. New-York, 1948.
Rabbi Shimon Rapheika (1915-1980), among students of “Knesset Yisrael” Yeshiva in Slobodka. Spent the years of the Holocaust in the Kovno Ghetto and in labor camps adjacent to Kaunas. After being rescued, he arrived at the Displaced Persons camps in the American region in Munich, where he served in the rabbinate for approximately four years. After immigrating to Eretz Yisrael he served in the military rabbinate and taught Torah in the city of Tel Aviv.
Five letters. Various sizes and conditions.
Attached are three typewritten leaves containing memories from his native town Josvainiai (adjacent to Kedainiai and Kaunas), which were written by Rabbi Shimon Rapheika, for book “Yahadut Lita”.