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1. 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
…Donald Harry Hirschberg (later Harter, 1933-2019) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), to Harry Morton (1899-1957) and Lenore Evelyne…
2. Black yarmulke owned by Milton Emont and likely used during World War II
2018.565.3 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.565.3
Date:
use: approximately 1943-approximately 1946
… both France and Germany. In 1945, he was able to complete eight weeks of graduate coursework in French and French literature at the Sorbonne and…
3. Tallis with bag given to a Czechoslovakian Jewish man by a U.S. Army chaplain
2018.297.4 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.297.4 a-b
Date:
received: after 1946 May-before 1947 December
…), and Isik (c. 1932-1944), and attended a public primary school for eight years. In 1938 and 1939, Germany, Hungary, and Poland annexed territory from…
4. Pair of tefillin and bag given to a Czechoslovakian Jewish man by a U.S. Army chaplain
2018.297.3 e 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.297.3 a-e
Date:
received: after 1946 May-before 1947 December
…), and Isik (c. 1932-1944), and attended a public primary school for eight years. In 1938 and 1939, Germany, Hungary, and Poland annexed territory from…
5. Pair of tefillin and pouch owned by a German Jewish man
2016.538.2 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2016.538.2 a-d
Date:
emigration: after 1937-1939 May
…Ilse Brilling (1927-2016) was born to Hedwig (nee, Finkenstein, 1891-1959) and Isidor (1895-1939) Brilling in Rastenburg, Germany (now Kętrzyn…
6. Tallit owned by a German Jewish man
Object | Accession Number: 2016.538.3
Date:
emigration: after 1937-1939 May
…Ilse Brilling (1927-2016) was born to Hedwig (nee, Finkenstein, 1891-1959) and Isidor (1895-1939) Brilling in Rastenburg, Germany (now Kętrzyn…
7. Pair of Tefillin and pouch owned by a Romanian Jewish concentration camp survivor
2006.516.4 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2006.516.4 a-c
Date:
use: before 1944 May
recovered: 1946
… learned several languages, including Hebrew, Romanian, Hungarian, French, and German. In the late 1930s, Hungary made an alliance with Nazi Germany that…
8. 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…
9. 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…
10. 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…