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Charlotte Martha Kaletta; Born on: June 16, 1908; Born in: Ilmenau, Duitsland; Died on: June 13, 1986; Died in: Amsterdam, Nederland; Charlotte Kaletta, vermoedelijk 1939. Fotocollectie: Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam. Status onduidelijk. Charlotte Kaletta was the girlfriend of Fritz Pfeffer.
- 10 Cecelia Kleiman and Isaac Woginiak
- 9 Julia Pak and Heung Jin Moon
- 8 Charlotte Kaletta and Friedrich ‘Fritz’ Pfeffer
- 7 David Masenta and Mgwanini Molomo
- 6 Etienne Cardiles and Xavier Jugele
- 5 Christelle Demichel and Eric Demichel
- 4 Chadil ‘Deffy’ Yuenying and Sarinya ‘Anne’ Kamsook
- 3 Janetta Gardiner and Kenneth Vanderwerff
- 2 Magali Jaskiewicz and Jonathan George
- 1 Ma’s Murdered Women
Just because you can’t normally marry a deadperson in the United States doesn’t mean that people haven’t tried. Cecelia Kleiman and Isaac Woginiak were first married in a Jewish ceremony on Miami Beach in January 1987. Sadly, Woginiak died of a heart attack soon afterward on March 10, 1987. Even more unfortunately for Kleiman, the couple did not ha...
Before his tragic death at age 17 in January 1984 from a car accident, Heung Jin Moon was the son of Sun Myung Moonand Hak Ja Han, leaders of the Unification Church in South Korea. According to church teachings, only married couples were permitted to enter heaven. As Heung Jin Moon had planned to marry prima ballerinaJulia Pak before his death, his...
Appearing in Anne Frank’s diaryunder the pseudonym Albert Dussel, Friedrich “Fritz” Pfeffer was a Jewish dentist who spent two years in hiding with Frank’s family. (“Dussel” meant “idiot.” Anne didn’t get along with him.) Before this, though, Pfeffer had met and fallen in love with Charlotte Kaletta. Due to the Nazi Nuremberg Laws of 1935, however,...
In 2004 in the tiny village of Ceres, South Africa, David Masenta shot and killed his pregnant fiancee, Mgwanini Molomo, and then himself. However, family members wanted to remember the pair as a happy couple, so they arranged for the two to marry. Dressed in wedding attire, the two were set to be joined in marriage before being buried. Mathole Mot...
Xavier Jugele was a French policeman who was killed by a terroriston the Champs-Elysees on April 20, 2017. As posthumous marriage is legal in France, Etienne Cardiles, Jugele’s partner, was married to his love in the presence of Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and former French President Francois Hollande. The couple had been in a domestic partnership bef...
After Eric Demichel’s death in a 2002 road accident, Christelle Demichel married him even though he was not standing there with her during the ceremony. They had met as police officersin 1997 in Paris. Soon, they moved in together and registered as common-law husband and wife. The couple moved to Nice to start raising a family and even fixed a wedd...
In Surin, Thailand, Chadil “Deffy” Yuenying and Sarinya “Anne” Kamsook had been dating for 10 years before they got married—once Kamsook was already dead. Before she was unexpectedly killed in an accident, the two had planned to get married after Yuenying finished his studies. In early 2012, Yuenying reportedly married her primarily out of guiltbec...
A rare posthumous marriage was permitted in the United States in 2014. Janetta Gardiner and Kenneth Vanderwerff dated from 2007 until 2010, when Vanderwerff died at age 78. A judge initially granted Gardiner’s request for a posthumous common-law marriage, thus making her the executor of Vanderwerff’s estate. Cousins of Vanderwerff soon intervened, ...
A car crash in eastern France in November 2008 brought an end to the earthly relationship of Magali Jaskiewicz and Jonathan George, but France’s necrogamy laws enabled them to continue on together past “till death do us part.” At 26, Jaskiewicz have lived with George for six years and raised two children with him. The couple had gone to the town ha...
The tradition of ghost weddings, which are said to ensure that the unmarried dead are not alone in the afterlife, can have some horrible unintended consequences. In the Shaanxi province in 2016, a man named Ma Chonghua was arrested for promising two women with mental disabilities that he would find them grooms. Then he murdered them in an attempt t...
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Fritz Pfeffer was a dentist in Berlin. He was engaged to Charlotte Kaletta, who was a Roman Catholic. He could not marry her, because the German racial laws prohibited marriages between Jews and non-Jews. In November 1938, Jews were assaulted and arrested throughout Germany during the so-called Kristallnacht.
As a result, many people wishing to get married who were affected by German law went to Brussels. Fritz Pfeffer and Charlotte Kaletta also wanted to try their luck in Brussels. Charlotte Kaletta spent some time in that city in late June 1939, but Pfeffer's passport had expired in January 1939 and the German consulate in Amsterdam refused to ...
On 16 November 1942, Fritz Pfeffer went into hiding in the Secret Annex. He was the dentist of Miep Gies and an acquaintance of Otto and Edith Frank. His fiancé Charlotte Kaletta had been a guest at the wedding of Miep and Jan Gies the previous year. Pfeffer had told his landlord that he would be hospitalised.
Jan 13, 1991 · A search of Kaletta’s belongings uncovered more material on Pfeffer, including four love letters he had written to Kaletta, whom he was unable to marry because of the Nazi ban on marriages ...
Posthumous marriage to: Charlotte Kaletta (deemed to have taken place on 31 May 1937 by decree after the war) In hiding: 16 November 1942 Arrested: 4 August 1944
