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1. Needlepoint matzoh cover with a Hebrew inscription, flowers and leaves
1990.41.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.2 a-b
2. Ritual slaughter instrument set: 3 knives, 3 cases, 2 whetstones, a bag, a band, and 4 cloths used by a shochet
1992.8.39_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.39 a-n
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
3. Embroidered pink silk challah cover buried for safekeeping while the owner was in hiding
2010.487.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.487.2
Date:
recovered: approximately 1945 May
4. Monogrammed bag for storing a prayer shawl saved by a German Jewish refugee
1993.22.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.22.1
Date:
emigration: 1938
5. 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
6. Matzoh cover with an embroidered Star of David, kiddush cup, and Hebrew inscription recovered postwar by a Dutch Jewish family
2008.220.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.220.5
Date:
creation: 1919
recovered: after 1945 July
7. 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
8. 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
9. Tefillin pair and embroidered pouch brought with a German Jewish refugee
1990.223.1.2._a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.223.1.2 a-c
Date:
received: approximately 1927
10. Tallit katan
2000.502.196 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.502.196
11. Mezuzah pendant kept during his imprisonment by a concentration camp inmate
1994.59.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.59.1
12. Metallic brown tallit atarah brought with a Polish Jewish emigre
2009.117.27 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.117.27
Date:
emigration: 1939
creation: 1939
13. Shofar saved by a German Jewish refugee
1993.22.2.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.22.2.1
Date:
emigration: 1938
14. Ritual slaughter knife with a wooden case used by a shochet
1992.8.33_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.33 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
15. Silver kiddush cup with scenes of Lublin entrusted to a Gentile neighbor
2003.41.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.41.1
Date:
creation: approximately 1873
received: 1941
16. Pair of tefillin with batim covers saved with a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
2002.140.9 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.9 a-d
Date:
use: before 1942
17. Klaf found on a street in Vilna after liberation
Object | Accession Number: 1996.153.1
18. Desecrated, broken tombstone with carved Torah scroll from Turek Jewish cemetery
Object | Accession Number: 1990.292.6
Date:
creation: approximately 1850-1899
recovered: 1989
use: after 1939 September
19. Set of tefillin found postwar by a young Polish Jewish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.3 b-c
Date:
found: 1945
20. Castle-shaped Havdalah spice box (besamim) owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.5
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1850-approximately 1935
emigration: 1939-1949
21. 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
22. Shabbat candle holder
Object | Accession Number: 2019.576.12
23. Partially written Torah scroll carried by the Schulz family
Object | Accession Number: 2022.184.2
Date:
use: 1939
24. Blue striped tallit with an embroidered neckband owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.16
Date:
received: after 1948
25. 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
26. Desecrated, broken tombstone with carved crown from Turek Jewish cemetery
Object | Accession Number: 1990.292.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1850-1899
recovered: 1989
use: after 1939 September
27. Tubular silver mezuzah saved with a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
2002.140.3 open
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.3
Date:
use: before 1942
28. 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
29. Metallic pink and yellow tallit atarah brought with a Polish Jewish emigre
2009.117.25 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.117.25
Date:
emigration: 1939
creation: 1939
30. Torah scroll made for a Jewish boy
1993.85.1_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.85.1 a
31. Tower style tombstone broken in half from a desecrated Jewish cemetery recovered postwar
Object | Accession Number: 2005.609.3 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1715-before 1864
32. Tefillin pair kept through the war by a Jewish Polish man
2003.418.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.418.2 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1930
33. Desecrated tombstone in 2 sections with carved scrollwork from Turek Jewish cemetery
Object | Accession Number: 1990.292.8 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1850-1899
recovered: 1989
use: after 1939 September
34. Parchment prayer scroll with cover buried then recovered postwar
2013.476.10 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.476.10 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1941
recovered: 1950
35. 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
36. 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
37. 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
38. Silver, engraved kiddush cup used by German Jewish refugees in Shanghai
2002.250.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.250.2
39. Etched kiddush cup received in exchange for bread
1997.83.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.83.1
40. Yad or Torah pointer used for over a century in Romania
2000.528.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.528.2
41. 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
42. Tefillin set with pouch
2019.391.2 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2019.391.2 a-c
43. Metallic yellow and silver tallit atarah brought with a Polish Jewish emigre
2009.117.26 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.117.26
Date:
emigration: 1939
creation: 1939
44. Tallit bag
2000.502.200 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.502.200
45. Recovered fragment of a desecrated tombstone honoring a Greek Jewish mother and infant
Object | Accession Number: 2011.109.1
Date:
commemoration: 1942 November 04
use: 1942 December
46. 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
47. Brass Shabbat lamp and drip tray acquired by a German Jewish woman
Object | Accession Number: 2018.356.2 a-b
Date:
acquired: after 1907 September 26-before 1939 March 15
48. Handmade lace challah cover with a Hebrew inscription owned by Gertrude Straus
1989.154.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.154.1
Date:
1801-1900
49. Set of tefillin carried by a young German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
2015.365.5 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.365.5 a-b
Date:
recovered: 1945
50. 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