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1. 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
2. Parokhet
1990.41.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.4
3. Mezuzah pendant distributed to a young girl at the Bindermichl displaced persons camp
2005.302.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.302.1
Date:
received: 1945 October
4. Hanukkah menorah with fish shaped feet that was used in the Tarnow Ghetto
1991.82.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.82.1
Date:
use: 1941 March-1943 September
manufacture: 1910-1941
5. Black yarmulke used by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.5
Date:
use: after 1938
6. Monogrammed bag for storing a prayer shawl saved by a German Jewish refugee
1993.22.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.22.1
Date:
emigration: 1938
7. Yad or Torah pointer used for over a century in Romania
2000.528.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.528.2
8. Tallit katan brought to England by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee
2016.203.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2016.203.2
Date:
use: after 1924 June 02
9. Circumcision knife with a glass and metal handle with a black wooden case used by a mohel
1992.8.30_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.30 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
10. Burgundy velvet tefillin pouch saved with a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
2002.140.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.11
Date:
use: before 1942
11. Challah cover with an embroidered blue flower recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.5
Date:
recovered: 1945 July
12. Metallic brown tallit atarah brought with a Polish Jewish emigre
2009.117.27 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.117.27
Date:
emigration: 1939
creation: 1939
13. Broken pink gravestone with a Ladino inscription from a desecrated Jewish cemetery recovered postwar
Object | Accession Number: 2005.609.1
Date:
creation: approximately 1715-before 1864
14. Metal grave marker of a Jewish woman who was killed in Djakovo labor camp
2012.319.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.319.4
Date:
creation: after 1945
15. Ritual slaughter instrument set: 3 knives, 3 cases, 2 whetstones, a bag, a band, and 4 cloths used by a shochet
1992.8.39_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.39 a-n
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
16. Ornament of the Ten Commandments tablets supported by two lions
2013.475.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.475.2
Date:
undated: 
17. Torah scroll and case
Object | Accession Number: 2002.341.2 a-b
18. Torah breastplate recovered postwar from the site of the destroyed synagogue in Grodno
1991.140.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.140.2
Date:
creation: 1870-1880
found: approximately 1945
19. Set of tefillin buried for safekeeping while the owner lived in hiding
2007.471.5 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.471.5 a-b
Date:
use: before 1932
recovered: after 1944 December
20. Tallit atarah
2014.409.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.409.1
21. Tallit bag
1993.142.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.142.1
Date:
creation: 1903
22. Desecrated Torah fragment used as wrapping
1992.183.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.183.9
23. Ner Tamid [Eternal light] lamp donated to the Gilgenberg synagogue by Joseph Marcus
Object | Accession Number: 2021.189.1
Date:
commemoration: 1913 August 19
use: 1913 August 19-1937
24. Green velvet monogrammed tallit pouch buried for safekeeping while owner in hiding
2007.471.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.471.3
Date:
use: before 1932
recovered: after 1944 December
25. 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
26. Torah
Object | Accession Number: 1990.96.1
Title:
Torah scroll
27. Tefillin with pouch
2018.429.2 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.429.2 a-c
28. Striped tallit and red velvet pouch used by a prewar German Jewish emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.7 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1934 July
29. Torah-style scroll and case signed by residents of Schlachtensee DP camp
2003.116.2 a closed
Object | Accession Number: 2003.116.2 a-b
Date:
received: 1946
30. 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
31. 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
32. Pair of tefillin and bag given to a Czechoslovakian Jewish man by a U.S. Army chaplain
2018.297.3 e 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.297.3 a-e
Date:
received: after 1946 May-before 1947 December
33. Hanukkah oil lamp from a Romanian synagogue
2000.530.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.530.2
34. Single tefillin with covers and pouch owned by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee
2016.203.15_b front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.203.15 a-c
Date:
use: after 1937 April
35. Desecrated, broken tombstone with carved crown from Turek Jewish cemetery
Object | Accession Number: 1990.292.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1850-1899
recovered: 1989
use: after 1939 September
36. Brown cloth Torah mantle with a Star of David applique
1990.41.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.20
Date:
recovered: after 1945
37. Scroll
2018.631.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.631.1
38. Tefillin set with pouch
2019.391.2 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2019.391.2 a-c
39. 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
40. Tallit bag
1991.144.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.144.1
Date:
creation: 1942
41. Oil Hanukiah used by a Polish Jewish refugee family
2016.137.6 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2016.137.6
42. Blue velvet bimah cover desecrated during Kristallnacht
Object | Accession Number: 2006.496.2
Date:
received: 1945-1947
use: 1938 November 09
43. Gravestone
Object | Accession Number: 2016.504.3
44. Embroidered purple tallit bag used by two Hungarian rabbis
1990.245.6_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.6 a
Date:
received: 1923 December 06
use: 1923 December 06-1952 March 29
45. White satin yarmulke owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.10
Date:
use: after 1938
46. Pair of tefillin taken from a concentration camp by an inmate at liberation
2000.580.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.580.1 a-b
Date:
found: 1945 January
47. Tsiyon [Zion] shaped stone Shabbat candleholder and base carved in a Cyprus detention camp
2006.478.1_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.478.1 a-b
Date:
creation: 1948
48. Set of tefillin kept by a Polish Jewish man through the war
Object | Accession Number: 2014.197.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1941-1945
49. Challah cover with a handpainted crest of lions with a crown with a Star of David created by a Jewish Polish refugee in Bergen-Belsen DP camp
2012.443.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.443.4
Date:
creation: 1948
50. Hanukkah menorah
Object | Accession Number: 2019.21.7 a-c