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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. 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.…
9. 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…
10. 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.…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. Matzoh cover with an embroidered Star of David, kiddush cup, and Hebrew inscription recovered postwar by a Dutch Jewish family
2008.220.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.220.5
Date:
creation: 1919
recovered: after 1945 July
… camps in Poland. But Rita and Manfred decided that having a child would express thier faith in an end to the war. On September 29, 1943, two German SS-men…
14. 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
… children’s home in Heemstede, where Leo was molested. After three months, the home was raided by the German SS and all circumcised boys and Jewish looking…
15. Tallit with Great Seal, Star of David and 10 commandments used by a US Army chaplain
Object | Accession Number: 2011.320.1
Date:
use: 1942-1946
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Estates of Judah Nadich and Martha Hadassah Nadich…
16. Metal mezuzah found postwar and used by a Polish Jewish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1993.11.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945 January
use: 1945-approximately 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…
17. Set of tefillin kept by a Polish Jewish man through the war
Object | Accession Number: 2014.197.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1941-1945
… camps in Berlin. On June 17, 1946, Baruch and Sarah left Bremen on the SS Marine Perch, arriving in New York on June 24. They settled in New York. Baruch…
18. 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…
19. Head tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man
1993.156.1.3 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.156.1.3 a-b
Date:
received: after 1945 May
… aunts and uncles were killed. On January 7, 1949, Idek, Solomon, Solomon’s wife Ela, and their three year old daughter Perla sailed from Hamburg on the SS…
20. Hand tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man
1993.156.1.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.156.1.2 a-b
Date:
received: after 1945 May
… aunts and uncles were killed. On January 7, 1949, Idek, Solomon, Solomon’s wife Ela, and their three year old daughter Perla sailed from Hamburg on the SS…