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1. 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
2. Parokhet
Object | Accession Number: 1993.137.1 a
Date:
creation: 1938
3. Damaged Torah scroll from a synagogue in Marburg desecrated during Kristallnacht
Object | Accession Number: 1991.131.1 a-c
Date:
found: 1938 November 09-1938 November 10
4. Hanukkah menorah with fish shaped feet that was used in the Tarnow Ghetto
1991.82.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.82.1
Date:
use: 1941 March-1943 September
manufacture: 1910-1941
5. 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
6. Pair of Sabbath candlesticks with wax reservoirs owned by a Jewish refugee
1992.8.28 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.28 a-d
Date:
use: approximately 1910-1938
emigration: 1938
7. Torah scroll torn into four pieces from a desecrated synagogue
Object | Accession Number: 1996.1.1 a-d
Date:
found: 1938 November 09-1938 November 10
8. Embroidered pouch for tefillin brought to the United States by Nisson Bespaloff or a family member
Object | Accession Number: 2017.694.3
Date:
use: 1901-1946
9. 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
10. Blue velvet bimah cover desecrated during Kristallnacht
Object | Accession Number: 2006.496.2
Date:
received: 1945-1947
use: 1938 November 09
11. White satin yarmulke with a button owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.11
Date:
use: after 1938
12. Tallit owned by a German Jewish man
Object | Accession Number: 2016.538.3
Date:
emigration: after 1937-1939 May
13. Damaged Torah scroll used as kindling
Object | Accession Number: 1990.119.1
Date:
use: 1938 November
14. Black yarmulke used by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.6
Date:
use: after 1938
15. Pair of tefillin with blue velvet bag used by a Jewish refugee
1992.8.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.17 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: 1900-1943
16. Candelabrum fragments from a synagogue destroyed during Kristallnacht
2000.507.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.507.1 a-b
Date:
found: after 1938 November 09
17. Tefillin pair with pouch brought with a German refugee
2014.545.2 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.545.2 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1938
18. 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
19. Brass Hanukkah menorah with fish shaped feet used by a Jewish refugee family
1992.8.32 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.32
Date:
use: 1910-1938
emigration: 1938
20. Calligraphy of Sukkot prayers and a personal inscription created by a sofer
1992.8.37 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.37
Date:
creation: 1933-1934
emigration: 1938
Artwork Title:
Welcoming Sukkot