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1. Megillah (Book of Esther) from the former Zülz synagogue brought to the US by German Jewish refugees
Object | Accession Number: 2004.482.1
Date:
use: before 1939
Title:
Book of Esther
…Donald Harry Hirschberg (later Harter, 1933-2019) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), to Harry Morton (1899-1957) and Lenore Evelyne…
2. 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
…Ilse Brilling (1927-2016) was born to Hedwig (nee, Finkenstein, 1891-1959) and Isidor (1895-1939) Brilling in Rastenburg, Germany (now Kętrzyn…
3. Tallit owned by a German Jewish man
Object | Accession Number: 2016.538.3
Date:
emigration: after 1937-1939 May
…Ilse Brilling (1927-2016) was born to Hedwig (nee, Finkenstein, 1891-1959) and Isidor (1895-1939) Brilling in Rastenburg, Germany (now Kętrzyn…
4. 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
…Louise Suessmann (nee Schwarzenberger, 1907-2000) was born in Mosbach, Germany, to Bernhard (1869-1943), a merchant, and Meta (nee Katzenberger, 1870…
5. Electric Ner tamid [Eternal light] with a table mount issued by Yad Vashem
1992.8.34_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.34 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1939
use: approximately 1961
…Sally (Sol) Ossowski was born on January 1, 1919, in Berlin, Germany, to Frieda Schwartzbardt, born in 1888, and Rabbi Issac Ossowski, born in 1877…
6. 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
… a shochet and Isaac attended Yeshiva in Russia. He resettled in Germany, first in Frankfurt am Main, then in Berlin. He married Frieda Schwartzbardt…
7. 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
… in Germany where they would have food. Most of the parents did not want to give their children away, so the Germans started to take the children away…
8. Blue velvet tallit pouch with an embroidered monogram owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.17
Date:
use: approximately 1939
…Carl Nathan Victor was born in Gusten, Germany, on May 1, 1879, to Louis and Henrietta Pels Victor. Louis was born in Gusten on December 8, 1832, to…
9. 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
…Fritz Silberschmidt was born on October 4, 1908, in Bocholt, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Jacob and Selma Berg Silberschmidt. Jacob was a veteran of…