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1. Torah fragment found in the ruins of a desecrated synagogue
Object | Accession Number: 1991.125.1
Date:
found: 1945
…Charles Braun was a Jewish hardware merchant in Jaszbereny, Hungary, a town of 30-35,000 inhabitants southeast of Budapest. After the occupation of…
2. Black yarmulke worn by a Hungarian rabbi
1990.245.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.8
Date:
use: before 1943
received: approximately 1939
…Simon Hevesi (1868-1943) was born Simon Handler in Aszód, Hungary, to Márk (1837-1911) and Julianna (nee Rosenberg) Handler. He had four siblings…
3. Striped silk tallit worn by a Hungarian rabbi
1990.245.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.10
Date:
use: 1952
…Ferenc Hevesi (1898-1952) was born in Lugos, Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania) to Simon (1868-1943) and Janka Hevesi (nee Brody, 1864-1945). He had four…
4. 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
…Simon Hevesi (1868-1943) was born Simon Handler in Aszód, Hungary, to Márk (1837-1911) and Julianna (nee Rosenberg) Handler. He had four siblings…
5. Embroidered purple tallit bag used by two Hungarian rabbis
1990.245.6_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.6 a
Date:
received: 1923 December 06
use: 1923 December 06-1952 March 29
…Simon Hevesi (1868-1943) was born Simon Handler in Aszód, Hungary, to Márk (1837-1911) and Julianna (nee Rosenberg) Handler. He had four siblings…
6. White kittel used by Rabbi Ferenc Hevesi on High Holidays
1990.245.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.14 a-b
Date:
use: 1922-1952
…Ferenc Hevesi (1898-1952) was born in Lugos, Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania) to Simon (1868-1943) and Janka Hevesi (nee Brody, 1864-1945). He had four…
7. Challah cover with an embroidered blue flower recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.5
Date:
recovered: 1945 July
…Kato Ritter (later Katie, Ida Katie Frankfurter) was born on August 26, 1925, in Vilmany, Hungary, to David and Gizella Weissburg Ritter. David was…
8. 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
…Adolf Hausman was born in Vasarosnameny, Hungary, on February 12, 1922, to Shmuel and Gizella Breiner Hausman. Gizella was born in Vasarosnameny. He…
9. Set of tefillin with a green pouch worn by a Hungarian rabbi
1990.245.9_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.9 a-c
Date:
use: before 1952
…Ferenc Hevesi (1898-1952) was born in Lugos, Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania) to Simon (1868-1943) and Janka Hevesi (nee Brody, 1864-1945). He had four…
10. 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…
11. 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
… learned several languages, including Hebrew, Romanian, Hungarian, French, and German. In the late 1930s, Hungary made an alliance with Nazi Germany that…
12. Purple velvet tallit pouch made by a woman for her fiance in a DP camp
1999.7.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.7.11
Date:
creation: approximately 1946 January
use: after 1946 January 27-before 1992
…. 1932, Liviya, b. 1934, and two others. Sevlus was a city in Subcarpathian Rus, which was annexed by Hungary in 1939. By 1940, all Jewish males were…
13. Tefillin set hidden and recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish family
2004.446.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.446.2 a-b
Date:
use: before 1944 December 14
recovered: after 1945 March
… mid-1942, Slovakia began transferring its Jews to German custody for deportation to concentration camps. In 1943, Herta attempted to escape to Hungary…
14. Green striped sateen tefillin pouch hidden and recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish family
2004.446.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.446.3
Date:
use: before 1944 December 14
recovered: after 1945 March
… mid-1942, Slovakia began transferring its Jews to German custody for deportation to concentration camps. In 1943, Herta attempted to escape to Hungary…