Wedding picture of Salomon and Flora Schrijver (nee Mendels)
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- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 19,4 cm x W: 25,4 cm
- Date
- 1942
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 19,4 cm x W: 25,4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1942
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Outdoors, landscape format.Portrait of a bride (Flora Mendels, born October 15th, 1919) and groom (Salomon Schrijver) on their wedding day. Negative for this picture is Acc#1995.18.6-2 (Un,Rec#8445). The bride and groom are in the centre front of the picture. He is wearing a top hat, a white shirt with wing collar, a striped tie, a black coat with a white (?) flower on his lapel. On the left side of his coat is sewn a yellow star marked with the word Jood (Jew). Behind him on the left corner of the picture one can see the faces of one boy and one young man probably attending the wedding. His bride is standing on his left. She is wearing a white wedding dress whith a see-through neckline with applique white flowers and a white veil decorated with white fabric flowers. She is holding a bouquet of white (?) flowers. Behind her left shoulder one can see a woman who is probably part of the wedding party. Narrative: The wedding is taking place during the Nazi occupaton of the Netherlands. Jews in The Netherlands were forced to wear the star of David since May 1942. The wedding ceremony took place at the Great Synagogue of Amsterdam (known as the Great Shul). The ceremonial dedication of the synagogue took place on 25 March 1671. Theirs was one of the last weddings performed at the Great synagogue before the German occupying forces ordered the synagogue to close (September 1943). Salomon and Flora were first deported to the transit camp of Westerbork (The Netherlands) and from there to the death camp of Sobibor (Poland) where they were killed. Their approximate date of death is July 09th, 1943.
- Accession No.
- 1995.18.61
- Name Access
- Schryver, Samuel
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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