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Naturally we didn't have a church wedding. I couldn't have a church wedding as a political officer because they'd have dismissed me from the army at once and I wouldn't even have got any pension. And so on 5th December 1955 in Gryfow we had a civil one and that's how we've stayed until now. A modest ceremony. There were a few officers from Luban and a few of my wife's friends. And that was all. It was in my wife's apartment.
I remember going to the Jewish wedding of a friend, Ferster Henryk, an officer too, in Wroclaw. While still a bachelor, in 1954 or 1955. I didn't go to the ceremony in the synagogue that time, I don't remember why. The wedding reception was in the Hotel Monopol. The band played Jewish tunes, of course. He married a Jewish woman, but he wasn't allowed to have a Jewish wedding. They just asked why, how and what. And he had to go back into civilian life.
I remember going to the Jewish wedding of a friend, Ferster Henryk, an officer too, in Wroclaw. While still a bachelor, in 1954 or 1955. I didn't go to the ceremony in the synagogue that time, I don't remember why. The wedding reception was in the Hotel Monopol. The band played Jewish tunes, of course. He married a Jewish woman, but he wasn't allowed to have a Jewish wedding. They just asked why, how and what. And he had to go back into civilian life.
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Leon Glazer
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