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1. Desecrated Torah scroll recovered postwar by a Polish Jew
1991.227.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.227.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945
… that it had been used as the backdrop for executions of Jews in a courtyard in Pultusk. It is not known how the man knew this information. Jerome and…
2. 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
… concentration camp, a subcamp of Gross Rosen in Lower Silesia. They learned the Eduard had been executed on January 9, 1945, with 746 other prisoners in…
3. 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
… concentration camp, a subcamp of Gross Rosen in Lower Silesia. They learned the Eduard had been executed on January 9, 1945, with 746 other prisoners in…
4. Tallit and storage pouch buried and recovered by a Dutch Jewish family
Object | Accession Number: 2013.437.2 a-b
Date:
recovered: after 1945 May
use: after 1855-before 1911
… during the Holocaust in Amsterdam, Netherlands, during which Andries was executed for his resistance activity and Leo and other family members lived in…
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
…. Nachman once tried to smuggle in sacks of potatoes, but was caught and arrested by the police. They decided to execute him but an SS officer, for whom…
6. Tefillin worn by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding
1990.251.1.2 cover on
Object | Accession Number: 1990.251.1.2
Date:
use: approximately 1900-1967
…. Nachman once tried to smuggle in sacks of potatoes, but was caught and arrested by the police. They decided to execute him but an SS officer, for whom…
7. Tefillin worn by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding
1990.251.1.3 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 1990.251.1.3
Date:
use: approximately 1900-1967
…. Nachman once tried to smuggle in sacks of potatoes, but was caught and arrested by the police. They decided to execute him but an SS officer, for whom…