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1. 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
…, Benjamin and Feigele boarded the SS Marine Perch in Bremerhaven, arriving in New York on May 23. They settled in New York. Israel, Rivka, and Genia emigrated…
2. 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
…, Benjamin and Feigele boarded the SS Marine Perch in Bremerhaven, arriving in New York on May 23. They settled in New York. Israel, Rivka, and Genia emigrated…
3. 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
…, Benjamin and Feigele boarded the SS Marine Perch in Bremerhaven, arriving in New York on May 23. They settled in New York. Israel, Rivka, and Genia emigrated…
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
… November 22, German SS officers took Josef to a fairground. He saw men down rolling on the ground while being kicked, and then loaded onto buses. One officer…
5. 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
… November 22, German SS officers took Josef to a fairground. He saw men down rolling on the ground while being kicked, and then loaded onto buses. One officer…
6. 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
… thought they were partisans. She went inside and told her father. Then Aurelia went out, recognized the soldiers as SS (Schutzstaffel), and hid behind the…
7. Tefillin set hidden and recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish family
2004.446.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.446.2 a-b
Date:
use: before 1944 December 14
recovered: after 1945 March
… thought they were partisans. She went inside and told her father. Then Aurelia went out, recognized the soldiers as SS (Schutzstaffel), and hid behind the…
8. 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
… interrogated several times by the SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons) who gathered intelligence on opponents of the Nazi state and policed racial purity. In…
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
…'s father perished in the Holocaust. On December 9, 1941, Alexander and Auguste were deported to Riga, Latvia. In August 1942, they were sent to Auschwitz…
10. 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…
11. Circumcision knife with inscription and agate handle with wooden case used by a mohel
1992.8.27_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.27 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
… interrogated several times by the SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons) who gathered intelligence on opponents of the Nazi state and policed racial purity. In…
12. 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
… Forchheim, Germany, before and after the Holocaust.…
13. 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
… Allied forces caused the SS to evacuate the camp in September. Otto and Mihail were sent to Kochendorf, another Natzweiler subcamp in Germany. Prisoners at…
14. Pair of tefillin and pouch owned by a German Jewish man
2016.538.2 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2016.538.2 a-d
Date:
emigration: after 1937-1939 May
… down. Isidor was arrested by the SS and imprisoned in Mitgeten. A relative living in the United States sent him an affidavit, which Hedwig took along…
15. 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
… Allied forces caused the SS to evacuate the camp in September. Otto and Mihail were sent to Kochendorf, another Natzweiler subcamp in Germany. Prisoners at…
16. Black and white striped wool tallit katan found postwar by a Polish Jewish man
2003.163.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.163.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945 May
… September 1, 1939, and soon forced the Jews of Druja into a ghetto. Chaim, a skilled watchmaker, repaired watches for the SS authorities. When the ghetto was…
17. Black velvet tefillin pouch embroidered BG rescued after Kristallnacht and recovered postwar
2004.576.2 back
Object | Accession Number: 2004.576.2
Date:
use: before 1938 November 09
recovered: after 1945 May
… Forchheim, Germany, before and after the Holocaust.…
18. 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
… interrogated several times by the SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons) who gathered intelligence on opponents of the Nazi state and policed racial purity. In…
19. Tefillin set found on the body of a concentration camp inmate by a Jewish American soldier
1988.118.1 b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.118.1 g-l
Date:
found: after 1945 April 22-before 1945 May
… in 1905 and sponsored the family’s emigration. Walter traveled to Southampton, England, and sailed on SS Ile De France on June 30, 1938, arriving in…
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
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…