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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
…, during Kristallnacht. The handwritten scroll tells the Biblical story of Esther, a Queen of Persia, who saved the Jewish people from a massacre planned by…
2. 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
… pogroms of violence and destruction against Jews and their property, known as Kristallnacht. During the pogroms, 30,000 Jewish men were also incarcerated in…
3. Painted wooden spice box kept by by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.498.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.498.3
Date:
received: 1939 February
… friends tell her that they could no longer associate with her. One night during the November 8-9, 1938, Kristallnacht pogrom, Hannah awoke because the bed…
4. Tallit owned by a German Jewish man
Object | Accession Number: 2016.538.3
Date:
emigration: after 1937-1939 May
… Girls), a Nazi girls’ group. On November 9, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, stores run by Jews were destroyed and their synagogues were burned…
5. 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
… Girls), a Nazi girls’ group. On November 9, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, stores run by Jews were destroyed and their synagogues were burned…
6. 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
… increasingly harsh. Carl’s business was not restricted and it converted to produce war rations for the Army. After the Kristallnacht destruction of November 9-10…