Heter Me’ah Rabanim after the Shoah. Signed by rabbis of the Badatz Chassidim in Jerusalem. A chilling document.

Heter to Rabbi Menachem Adler of Khust in Hungary, allowing him to marry a second woman with having divorced his first wife, since his wife was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz. “He brought a letter from the Rav of Semihali testifying that he was with his wife in the Khust ghetto and then they were sent to the extermination camp of Auschwitz…and as is known the women who had oung sons went to the left, and everyone was lost in the gas chambers…the impure evil people fell on the Jews with the worse kind of cruelty and tried to wipe Israel away and shed innocent blood.” At the top of the heter are signed the heads of the Badatz, Ra’avad Rabbi Yerucham Fischel Bernstein, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Shmerler, and Rabbi Ysirael Yitzhak Reisman. Additional signature later of rabbis, admors, and students (including the Toldot Aharon). Signs of folding. 33x20cm. Generally good condition.