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1. Medallion with Moses and the S'hma prayer found by a young Jewish woman on a camp transport
2009.359.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.359.3
Date:
found: 1943-1945
… a large scale round-up and ghetto residents were loaded onto trucks. The sisters were separated from their parents and evaded this and subsequent…
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
…, taking only a few belongings to avoid detection by their neighbors, the family took a night train to Szczecin, Poland. From there, they went by truck to…
3. 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
… second attempt and were arrested in Zagreb and sent back. Their third attempt was successful, and after riding in a covered truck at night, they reached…
4. Tefillin storage pouch buried for safekeeping and recovered postwar
2004.333.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.333.2
Date:
recovered: approximately 1945 May
… second attempt and were arrested in Zagreb and sent back. Their third attempt was successful, and after riding in a covered truck at night, they reached…
5. 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
… students were transported there by truck. Sara and Hirsz also spent time at a Jewish recreation club, Maccabi, which was strongly pro-Zionist, and joined the…