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41. Tallit with dark blue stripes on each end buried for safekeeping
2007.471.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.471.4
Date:
use: before 1932
recovered: after 1944 December
…, Frieda, Walter, and Henri Hurwitz, who lived in Ukkle. Her mother had one other sister, Hella Tausk, who with her husband, Walter, had immigrated to the…
42. Kippah buried for safekeeping while the owner lived in hiding
2007.471.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.471.1
Date:
use: before 1932
recovered: after 1944 December
…, Frieda, Walter, and Henri Hurwitz, who lived in Ukkle. Her mother had one other sister, Hella Tausk, who with her husband, Walter, had immigrated to the…
43. Set of tefillin buried for safekeeping while the owner lived in hiding
2007.471.5 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.471.5 a-b
Date:
use: before 1932
recovered: after 1944 December
…, Frieda, Walter, and Henri Hurwitz, who lived in Ukkle. Her mother had one other sister, Hella Tausk, who with her husband, Walter, had immigrated to the…
44. 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
…, Frieda, Walter, and Henri Hurwitz, who lived in Ukkle. Her mother had one other sister, Hella Tausk, who with her husband, Walter, had immigrated to the…
45. Green velvet monogrammed tallit pouch buried for safekeeping while owner in hiding
2007.471.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.471.3
Date:
use: before 1932
recovered: after 1944 December
…, Frieda, Walter, and Henri Hurwitz, who lived in Ukkle. Her mother had one other sister, Hella Tausk, who with her husband, Walter, had immigrated to the…
46. Torah scroll with cover and box
2017.242.6 a-d closed
Object | Accession Number: 2017.242.6 a-d
Date:
use: approximately 1944
…) Weisberger, both of whom had immigrated from Hungary (Bentzion with his family as a child in 1882, and Pearl as a 15-year-old in 1890). The family moved to…
47. 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
… Müllers began making plans to immigrate. Everyone in the family got passports and the family registered for American immigration quota numbers. Norbert…
48. Pair of small tefillin brought to the United States by Nisson Bespaloff or a family member
Object | Accession Number: 2017.694.5 a-b
Date:
use: 1901-1946
… when the owner immigrated in the 1930s or 1940s. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn on the arm and the head…
49. Tallit
2018.630.3 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.630.3 a-b
… younger brother Alfred, leaving behind Hugo's wife, Erna Baer and extended relatives. Hugo and Alfred survived WWII in Shanghai, immigrating to the United…
50. Tallit used by Henry Eisenberg when he was a Displaced Person
Object | Accession Number: 2021.190.2
Date:
use: after 1945
…. They immigrated to the United States in 1949, and later settled in New Jersey. The couple had four children: Leib Ajzenberg (b. 1946, later Larry…
51. Tsiyon [Zion] shaped stone Shabbat candleholder and base carved in a Cyprus detention camp
2006.478.1_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.478.1 a-b
Date:
creation: 1948
… permits, so they moved to Sydney in 1955. Eventually, they were able to join Natalia’s sisters and family in the United States. The family immigrated to New…
52. Black velvet tefillin pouch embroidered BG rescued after Kristallnacht and recovered postwar
2004.576.2 back
Object | Accession Number: 2004.576.2
Date:
use: before 1938 November 09
recovered: after 1945 May
… kindertransport with the help of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS). Irmgard moved to Emmendingen with Rose’s mother, Olga, and aunt to establish residency…
53. Pair of batim from a set of tefillin rescued after Kristallnacht and recovered postwar
2004.576.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.576.1 a-b
Date:
use: before 1938 November 09
recovered: after 1945 May
… kindertransport with the help of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS). Irmgard moved to Emmendingen with Rose’s mother, Olga, and aunt to establish residency…
54. Desecrated Torah scroll recovered postwar by a Polish Jew
1991.227.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.227.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945
… immigrated to the United States in 1960, the Torah was brought with them. It remained wrapped and hidden in their home until she died in 1989.…
55. Torah
Object | Accession Number: 2007.471.6
Date:
use: 1932
found: 1945
Title:
Miniature Torah scroll
… lived in hiding in a small village, but her parents and an uncle had been deported and killed at Auschwitz. Johanna and Beatrice immigrated to the United…
56. 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
… Middlebury College in 1948 and began his doctorate work at the University of Wisconsin in 1949. While there, Milton met Marietta Gruenbaum, a Jewish immigrant…
57. 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
…Germany--Emigration and immigration--Biography.…
58. 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
…, 1947, when he boarded the Marine Marlin and immigrated to the United States. He arrived in New York on March 3. On October 25, 1947, Herman married…
59. Torah mantle with embroidered crown used for Bar Mitzvah at Theresienstadt
2005.517.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.517.4
Date:
received: 1944 July
… resided in the camp until November 1947 when, with the assistance of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, they were granted visas for the United States, where…
60. Pair of tefillin taken from a concentration camp by an inmate at liberation
2000.580.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.580.1 a-b
Date:
found: 1945 January
… Rubin. Rubin had settled in Palestine before the war and married a woman from America. Moniek prepared to immigrate to Palestine to join his brother. As…