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Yaakov Ederman entertains guests at a Jewish wedding in Shanghai.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 30305
Yaakov Ederman entertains guests at a Jewish wedding in Shanghai. Also pictured is Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Walkin, seated to the right of the candles, directly in front of the while curtain.

Yaakov Ederman entertains guests at a Jewish wedding in Shanghai.

Also pictured is Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Walkin, seated to the right of the candles, directly in front of the while curtain.

Date
1941 - 1946
Locale
Shanghai, [Kiangsu] China
Photo Designation
JEWISH LIFE IN CHINA -- Shanghai/Hongkew Ghetto -- Pre-war/Wartime -- Religious Life/Synagogues/Cemeteries
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Rabbi Jacob Ederman

About This Photograph

Biography
Yaakov (Jacob) Ederman is the son of Rabbi Alter Benzion and Miriam Udes Ederman. He was born in 1921 in Luck, Poland, where his father was a leading rabbinic figure. Yaakov had six siblings: Meir Aryeh, Sholem Yitzhak, Efraim, Avrohom Tzvi, Yosef and Shaindel. At the age of ten, Yaakov was sent to study at the yeshiva in Ostrow Mazowiecka. Later he transferred to another in Baranovichi, and finally in the late 1930s, he moved to the yeshiva in Mir. Yaakov fled with the entire yeshiva to Vilna on October 15, 1939, two weeks after the start of World War II. After the break up of the yeshiva in August 1940, Yaakov was among the students who were sent to Krakenava. Since Yaakov spoke Polish fluently, he was tapped by the leadership of the Mir Yeshiva to negotiate with the Polish legation at the British consulate in Kaunas to obtain visas for the members of the yeshiva. After a week of meetings, he emerged with approximately 300 certificates for all the students and rabbis who did not have valid passports. Yaakov left for Japan in early 1941, bearing Sugihara transit visa #880. He stayed in Kobe until the fall of 1941 and then proceeded to Shanghai, where he remained for the rest of the war. Yaakov immigrated to the United States in 1947.

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Administrative History

Artifact Photographer
Max Reid

Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Rabbi Jacob Ederman
 
Record last modified: 2018-01-08 00:00:00
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