Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

You searched for: Subject Germany. Remove constraint Subject: Germany. Objects Jewish Art and Symbolism Remove constraint Objects: Jewish Art and Symbolism
New Search

Search

Search Results

61. Tallit with Great Seal, Star of David and 10 commandments used by a US Army chaplain
Object | Accession Number: 2011.320.1
Date:
use: 1942-1946
…’Elysee night club. In Paris, and later in Germany, Nadich provided help to the Bricha organization in its efforts to assist Jewish refugees to emigrate, often…
62. Single head tefillin
Object | Accession Number: 2012.244.4
Date:
emigration: 1940
…Annemarie Alexander was born on August 3, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Isadore and Anna Hirschensohn Alexander, who was born in 1890. Isadore, born…
63. Single hand tefillin
Object | Accession Number: 2012.244.5
Date:
emigration: 1940
…Annemarie Alexander was born on August 3, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Isadore and Anna Hirschensohn Alexander, who was born in 1890. Isadore, born…
64. Single head tefillin
Object | Accession Number: 2012.244.6
Date:
emigration: 1940
…Annemarie Alexander was born on August 3, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Isadore and Anna Hirschensohn Alexander, who was born in 1890. Isadore, born…
65. Tefillin bag
Object | Accession Number: 2012.244.7
Date:
emigration: 1940
…Annemarie Alexander was born on August 3, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Isadore and Anna Hirschensohn Alexander, who was born in 1890. Isadore, born…
66. Silk matzah holder with a handpainted fruit and floral design for Passover created by a Jewish Polish refugee in Bergen-Belsen DP camp
2012.443.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.443.2
Date:
creation: 1948
… September 10, but on September 1, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany. When the war began, the Polish government called for all able bodied men to report for…
67. Challah cover with a handpainted crest of lions with a crown with a Star of David created by a Jewish Polish refugee in Bergen-Belsen DP camp
2012.443.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.443.4
Date:
creation: 1948
… September 10, but on September 1, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany. When the war began, the Polish government called for all able bodied men to report for…
68. Mezuzah with an embossed rising sun used by a prewar German Jewish emigre to the US
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.2
Date:
emigration: 1934 July
…Leo Nast was born on October 3, 1885, in Schulitz, Germany. He had a sister, Frederica, and the family was Jewish. He attended Heidelberg University…
69. Painted mezuzah used by a prewar German Jewish emigre to the US
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.3
Date:
emigration: 1934 July
…Leo Nast was born on October 3, 1885, in Schulitz, Germany. He had a sister, Frederica, and the family was Jewish. He attended Heidelberg University…
70. Tefillin set with a dark red velvet pouch used by a prewar German Jewish emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.4 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1934 July
creation: 1899
…Leo Nast was born on October 3, 1885, in Schulitz, Germany. He had a sister, Frederica, and the family was Jewish. He attended Heidelberg University…
71. Atarah with a gold metallic thread floral pattern owned by a prewar German Jewish emigre to the US
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.5
Date:
emigration: 1934 July
…Leo Nast was born on October 3, 1885, in Schulitz, Germany. He had a sister, Frederica, and the family was Jewish. He attended Heidelberg University…
72. Striped tallit katan worn by a prewar German Jewish emigre to the US
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.6 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1934 July
…Leo Nast was born on October 3, 1885, in Schulitz, Germany. He had a sister, Frederica, and the family was Jewish. He attended Heidelberg University…
73. Striped tallit and red velvet pouch used by a prewar German Jewish emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.7 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1934 July
…Leo Nast was born on October 3, 1885, in Schulitz, Germany. He had a sister, Frederica, and the family was Jewish. He attended Heidelberg University…
74. Leather tallit pouch made by an inmate in a Dutch detention center
2012.485.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.485.11
Date:
creation: after 1939 September
…Fritz Silberschmidt was born on October 4, 1908, in Bocholt, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Jacob and Selma Berg Silberschmidt. Jacob was a veteran of…
75. Parchment prayer scroll with cover buried then recovered postwar
2013.476.10 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.476.10 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1941
recovered: 1950
…Stettin (Germany)…
76. 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
… September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The country was quickly occupied, and Herman was among the large portion of Polish soldiers captured as prisoners of…
77. Tallit katan brought to England by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee
2016.203.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2016.203.2
Date:
use: after 1924 June 02
…Norbert Müller (later Norman A. Miller) was born on June 2, 1924, in Tann in der Rhön, Germany, to Sebald and Laura Jüngster Müller. Sebald was born…
78. 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
…Norbert Müller (later Norman A. Miller) was born on June 2, 1924, in Tann in der Rhön, Germany, to Sebald and Laura Jüngster Müller. Sebald was born…
79. Hand painted Torah binder brought with German Jewish refugee family
2016.404.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.404.2
Date:
commemoration: 1935
use: 2012
…Erich Junker (later Eric, 1935-2012) was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany, to Friedrich (Fritz, later Fred, 1900-1980) and Betty (nee Keller, 1905-2005…
80. Brass Hanukiah carried by a German Jewish family who immigrated to Ecuador
2016.461.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.461.2 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1937
…Ruth Spier (née Steinberg, 1903-1981) was born in Peckelshiem, Germany, to Siegfried (1874-1945) and Fanny (née Gruenwald) Steinberg. Ruth had one…