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1. 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
… was two years older than he actually was, and both he and his father were selected for labor. Otto’s mother was separated from her son and husband for…
2. 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
… was two years older than he actually was, and both he and his father were selected for labor. Otto’s mother was separated from her son and husband for…
3. Hand tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man
1993.156.1.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.156.1.2 a-b
Date:
received: after 1945 May
… the hospital. Meyer was released from the hospital, but died later that day. In early 1944, Idek was selected to go to Auschwitz I concentration camp…
4. Head tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man
1993.156.1.3 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.156.1.3 a-b
Date:
received: after 1945 May
… the hospital. Meyer was released from the hospital, but died later that day. In early 1944, Idek was selected to go to Auschwitz I concentration camp…
5. Embroidered brown tefillin bag used by a Jewish Polish man
1993.156.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.156.1.1
Date:
received: after 1945 May
… the hospital. Meyer was released from the hospital, but died later that day. In early 1944, Idek was selected to go to Auschwitz I concentration camp…
6. Set of tefillin buried for safekeeping and recovered postwar
2004.333.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.333.1 a-b
Date:
recovered: approximately 1945 May
…. Josef was tattooed with the number A-5522. They shared a bunk and were selected to work in the Kanada Kommando, sorting the baggage of new arrivals. They…
7. Tefillin storage pouch buried for safekeeping and recovered postwar
2004.333.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.333.2
Date:
recovered: approximately 1945 May
…. Josef was tattooed with the number A-5522. They shared a bunk and were selected to work in the Kanada Kommando, sorting the baggage of new arrivals. They…
8. 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
… stay. The Germans began to destroy the ghetto in the early summer of 1944. They selected able bodied men and women to stay to gather and sort the…
9. Single head tefillin
Object | Accession Number: 2012.244.4
Date:
emigration: 1940
…. Egon was selected for a forced labor camp in Neuendorf and Annemarie volunteered to go with him. They had their own room in the barracks, and Annemarie…
10. Tefillin bag
Object | Accession Number: 2012.244.7
Date:
emigration: 1940
…. Egon was selected for a forced labor camp in Neuendorf and Annemarie volunteered to go with him. They had their own room in the barracks, and Annemarie…
11. Single hand tefillin
Object | Accession Number: 2012.244.5
Date:
emigration: 1940
…. Egon was selected for a forced labor camp in Neuendorf and Annemarie volunteered to go with him. They had their own room in the barracks, and Annemarie…
12. Single head tefillin
Object | Accession Number: 2012.244.6
Date:
emigration: 1940
…. Egon was selected for a forced labor camp in Neuendorf and Annemarie volunteered to go with him. They had their own room in the barracks, and Annemarie…
13. 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
…, the family was moved to the Traku ghetto in Shavel. Selections were held immediately, and children and those unable to work were sent away to be killed…
14. Grave marker from the Łódź ghetto
2008.88.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.88.1
Date:
commemoration: 1940 August 04
…, 1944. He saw his father briefly and learned that his mother had been selected for death upon arrival at the camp. Chaim never saw his father again. On…
15. 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
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Her parents, her sister, her aunt, and her cousin were sent immediately to the gas chamber. SS guards selected…
16. 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
…, the family was moved to the Traku ghetto in Shavel. Selections were held immediately, and children and those unable to work were sent away to be killed…
17. 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
…, the family was moved to the Traku ghetto in Shavel. Selections were held immediately, and children and those unable to work were sent away to be killed…
18. 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
… had been killed and burned. Lili refused to believe this and kept the hope that they were alive. After 3 days, Lili, Faige, Eva, and Lili were selected…
19. Pair of tefillin and pouch owned by a Polish Jewish immigrant
2016.280.1_a-b 3/4 view closed
Object | Accession Number: 2016.280.1 a-f
Date:
use: before 1983
…, Pincus, was conscripted for forced labor in Częstochowa, Poland, and during the summer, the SS selected a group of young men to send to the forced labor…
20. Tallit and storage pouch buried and recovered by a Dutch Jewish family
Object | Accession Number: 2013.437.2 a-b
Date:
recovered: after 1945 May
use: after 1855-before 1911
… girls were taken. Leo was sent to a collection center in Amsterdam. Leni, who did not appear Jewish, was not selected and remained in the home. Andries…