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1. 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
… medallion in the center. At the top of the medallion are two tablets, within the medallion are five people prostrating themselves before a stone wall. To the…
2. Tefillin and green velvet pouch used by a Polish Jewish survivor
2006.285.4_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.285.4 a-c
Date:
use: 1939-1945
…. Isak hid with Cywia whenever the Germans came. One night, Isak grabbed Sylvia and pulled her over a wall to the cemetery where he dug a hole in which…
3. 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
… the next day the prisoners escaped through a hole in a brick wall. Before he left, Adolf took a microscope from the camp hospital with the intention of…
4. Hanukkah oil lamp from a Romanian synagogue
2000.530.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.530.2
… design of a Star of David and a loop for hanging on the wall.…
5. Hand tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.3
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
… for the resistance, constructed a false wall in the cemetery’s goat shack they could stand behind during the daytime. Benjamin was gone during the days…
6. Head tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.2
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
… for the resistance, constructed a false wall in the cemetery’s goat shack they could stand behind during the daytime. Benjamin was gone during the days…
7. Brown tefillin pouch used by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.1
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
… for the resistance, constructed a false wall in the cemetery’s goat shack they could stand behind during the daytime. Benjamin was gone during the days…
8. 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
… for the resistance, constructed a false wall in the cemetery’s goat shack they could stand behind during the daytime. Benjamin was gone during the days…
9. Mizrach, a sign designating the direction of Jerusalem, with a personal inscription created by a sofer
1992.8.36 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.36
Date:
creation: 1928-1929
emigration: 1938
Artwork Title:
Mizrach for my Wife
… east wall of their home. Rabbi Ossowski was a prominent member of the Jewish community in Berlin. He was head shochet [ritual slaughterer], mohel…
10. Tefillin worn by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding
1990.251.1.3 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 1990.251.1.3
Date:
use: approximately 1900-1967
… could not use it. They lived in the chicken shed and built a false wall in case the farm was searched. The Germans searched the chicken shed and knocked…
11. Tefillin worn by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding
1990.251.1.2 cover on
Object | Accession Number: 1990.251.1.2
Date:
use: approximately 1900-1967
… could not use it. They lived in the chicken shed and built a false wall in case the farm was searched. The Germans searched the chicken shed and knocked…
12. Embroidered blue tefillin bag carried by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding
1990.251.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.251.1.1
Date:
use: approximately 1900-1967
… could not use it. They lived in the chicken shed and built a false wall in case the farm was searched. The Germans searched the chicken shed and knocked…