Ketuba D'Irkesa (lost), on the marriage of Rabbi Shimon Avraham son of Rabbi Shmuel Aharon to his wife Techiya (Techa) whom he married in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust. St Ottilien (Munich), Elul 1946.
The groom is Rabbi Shimon (Rafeiko) Rafeika (1915-1980), son of Rabbi Shmuel Aharon from the village of Josvainiai (near Kaunas), studied in the “Knesset Yisrael” Yeshiva in Slobodka. Survived the Holocaust years in the Kovno Ghetto and adjacent work camps. He married in the Kovno Ghetto and after both of them survived the war, they reached the DP camps in the American region of Munich where Rabbi Shimon served in the rabbinate for four years. See more about him in the next item.
29 cm. Fair condition, tears to margins and paper folds, paper joined with tape.