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1. Medallion with Moses and the S'hma prayer found by a young Jewish woman on a camp transport
2009.359.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.359.3
Date:
found: 1943-1945
2. Set of tefillin owned by a Hungarian Jewish concentration camp survivor
2004.611.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.611.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1949
3. Gravestone
Object | Accession Number: 2016.504.3
4. Torah binder belonging to Ludwig Srog
Object | Accession Number: 2021.180.2
5. Tallit katan
2000.502.195 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.502.195
6. Torah pointer recovered postwar from the site of the destroyed synagogue in Grodno
1991.140.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.140.1
Date:
creation: 1870-1880
found: approximately 1945
7. Embroidered pouch for a tallit brought to the United States by Nisson Bespaloff or a family member
Object | Accession Number: 2017.694.4
Date:
use: 1901-1946
8. Klaf found on a street in Vilna after liberation
Object | Accession Number: 1996.153.1
9. Black velvet embroidered tefillin bag buried for safekeeping while owner in hiding
2007.471.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.471.2
Date:
use: before 1932
recovered: after 1944 December
10. Desecrated section of a Torah scroll used as postal package wrapping
Object | Accession Number: 2010.104.1
Date:
use: 1941-1944
11. Yad or Torah pointer used for over a century in Romania
2000.528.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.528.1
12. Recovered fragment of a desecrated tombstone honoring a Greek Jewish mother and infant
Object | Accession Number: 2011.109.1
Date:
commemoration: 1942 November 04
use: 1942 December
13. Gravestone
Object | Accession Number: 2016.504.1
14. Handmade lace challah cover with a Hebrew inscription owned by Gertrude Straus
1989.154.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.154.1
Date:
1801-1900
15. Pair of Sabbath candlesticks with wax reservoirs owned by a Jewish refugee
1992.8.28 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.28 a-d
Date:
use: approximately 1910-1938
emigration: 1938
16. Hanukkah menorah with rearing lions used by a Polish German survivor
2014.557.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.2
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1933
17. Tallit
1990.209.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.209.4
Date:
received: approximately 1939
18. Red brushed velvet tefillin pouch with a Star of David found in postwar Berlin
1992.169.3_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.3 a
Date:
found: 1945
19. Tallit belonging to the Kampf family
Object | Accession Number: 2022.40.3 a-b
20. Tefillin pair and embroidered pouch brought with a German Jewish refugee
1990.223.1.2._a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.223.1.2 a-c
Date:
received: approximately 1927
21. Tombstone fragment recovered from a destroyed Jewish cemetery by a Holocaust survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1993.3.1
Date:
undated: 
recovered: 1992 May 27
22. Tallit carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2015.365.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.365.9
23. Single tefillin with covers and pouch owned by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee
2016.203.15_b front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.203.15 a-c
Date:
use: after 1937 April
24. Embroidered brown tefillin bag used by a Jewish Polish man
1993.156.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.156.1.1
Date:
received: after 1945 May
25. Kiddush saucer engraved with a Star of David owned by a Romanian Jewish family
2017.356.2 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 2017.356.2
Date:
use: before 1944 May
26. Burgundy velvet shofar cover with a floral border and tassels saved by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1993.22.2.2
Date:
emigration: 1938
27. Parokhet
1990.41.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.4
28. Crocheted tallit katan saved with a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
2002.140.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.14
Date:
use: before 1942
29. Tallit and storage pouch buried and recovered by a Dutch Jewish family
Object | Accession Number: 2013.437.2 a-b
Date:
recovered: after 1945 May
use: after 1855-before 1911
30. Fragment from a Torah mantle destroyed during Kristallnacht
Object | Accession Number: 2015.204.2
Date:
found: 1938 November 10
31. Tefillin pair with pouch brought with a German refugee
2014.545.2 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.545.2 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1938
32. Metal mezuzah found postwar and used by a Polish Jewish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1993.11.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945 January
use: 1945-approximately 1980
33. Brass Shabbat lamp and drip tray acquired by a German Jewish woman
Object | Accession Number: 2018.356.2 a-b
Date:
acquired: after 1907 September 26-before 1939 March 15
34. Yad or Torah pointer used for over a century in Romania
2000.528.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.528.2
35. Odessa tombstone
Object | Accession Number: 2016.562.1
36. Megillah (Book of Esther) from the former Zülz synagogue brought to the US by German Jewish refugees
Object | Accession Number: 2004.482.1
Date:
use: before 1939
Title:
Book of Esther
37. Embroidered parokhet
1990.41.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.5
38. Gravestone
Object | Accession Number: 2016.504.4
39. Large black and white striped wool tallit buried for safekeeping
Object | Accession Number: 2010.487.1
Date:
recovered: approximately 1945 May
40. Torah breastplate recovered postwar from the site of the destroyed synagogue in Grodno
1991.140.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.140.2
Date:
creation: 1870-1880
found: approximately 1945
41. Pair of Tefillin and pouch owned by a Romanian Jewish concentration camp survivor
2006.516.5 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2006.516.5 a-c
Date:
use: before 1944 May
recovered: 1946
42. Tefillin with pouch
2018.429.2 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.429.2 a-c
43. Tallit
Object | Accession Number: 2019.433.3
44. Tower style tombstone broken in half from a desecrated Jewish cemetery recovered postwar
Object | Accession Number: 2005.609.3 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1715-before 1864
45. Needlepoint matzoh cover with a Hebrew inscription, flowers and leaves
1990.41.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.2 a-b
46. Circumcision knife with a glass and metal handle with a black wooden case used by a mohel
1992.8.30_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.30 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
47. Striped tallit worn by two Hungarian rabbis
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.6 b
Date:
received: 1923 December 06
use: 1923 December 06-1952 March 29
48. Metallic silver pinwheel tallit decoration brought with a Polish Jewish emigre
2009.117.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.117.24
Date:
emigration: 1939
creation: 1939
49. Set of tefillin kept by a Polish Jewish man through the war
Object | Accession Number: 2014.197.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1941-1945
50. Blue striped tallit with embroidered Hebrew text used by a Czech Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.4
Date:
emigration: 1939 October