Jewish displaced persons celebrate a double wedding [probably in the Heidenheim displaced persons camp.]

Photograph | Photograph Number: 75535

Date: Circa 1945 - 1947
Locale: Heidenheim, [Baden-Wuerttemberg] Germany
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany -- Heidenheim
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of David Dembowitz

Biography: Rabbi Morris Dembowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1915. His family had originally come from the Bialystok region of Poland. Morris Dembowitz attended Yeshiva University and then received rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He married Leonore Markson in 1942. He served as a chaplain during World War II and was stationed first in Rouen, then in the children's home Ecouis where he worked with child survivors of Buchenwald and eventually in the Heidenheim displaced persons camp. Among his activities was the overseeing of the exhumation and reburial of Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He later served as the Executive Director of the Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia. Rabbi Dembowitz passed away in 2006.
Keyword: CELEBRATIONS
DP CAMPS/CENTERS
DPS (JEWISH)
HEIDENHEIM
SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
TABLES
WEDDINGS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: David Dembowitz
: Record last modified: 2014-12-19 00:00:00
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