Bidspirit auction | Vienna, 30.10.1939: Nazi marriage certificate

Vienna, 30.10.1939: Nazi marriage certificate of a Jewish couple, Chuno ”Israel” Klausner and Martha ”Sara” Salzer, with the imposed names Israel and Sara and the seal of the Vienna-Leopoldstadt registry office with eagle and swastika; the bride's father recorded as ”living in Shanghai” - Marriage certificate (Heiratsurkunde) of the registry office 5 Vienna-Leopoldstadt, No. 2426/1939: the clerk Chuno Israel Klausner, born 27.11.1910 in Gorlice, Galicia, living at Vienna 9, Rossauer Lände 23a, married on 30 October 1939 Martha Sara Salzer, without profession, born in Vienna 17.10.1921, aged 18, living in the Leopoldstadt district, Franz Hochedlingergasse 20. Both are recorded as ”Mosaic”, that is Jewish. The names ”Israel” and ”Sara” were imposed on all Jews of the Reich by the decree of 17 August 1938 and appeared on every official document from 1 January 1939. The groom's parents: Juda Klausner (”Klausner recte Kanner”, his legal name being Kanner) and Pessel Kanner, of Vienna, married at the Jewish registry office in Mielec on 20.4.1902. The bride's parents: Siegfried Israel Salzer, ”living in Shanghai”, and Guste Sara née Rothbauer, of Vienna, married in Vienna on 22.6.1920. The wedding took place two months after the outbreak of the war, when the bride's father had already fled to Shanghai, one of the few places then admitting Jews without an entry visa, while her mother remained in Vienna. The names of the couple and their parents do not appear in the database of Austrian Holocaust victims (DÖW). Form B 151 of the Verlag für Standesamtswesen, Berlin, in Gothic type, filled in by typewriter, signed by the deputy registrar, with the office seal and a 60 Reichspfennig Vienna city fee stamp. 21 x 30 cm, the back blank. Folds and light age spots, exactly as photographed.