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41. Tefillin set with a dark red velvet pouch used by a prewar German Jewish emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.4 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1934 July
creation: 1899
…Leo Nast was born on October 3, 1885, in Schulitz, Germany. He had a sister, Frederica, and the family was Jewish. He attended Heidelberg University…
42. Silver, engraved kiddush cup used by German Jewish refugees in Shanghai
2002.250.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.250.3
…Kiddush cup saved by the Caspary family when they fled from Bublitz, Germany (Bobolice, Poland) during the Holocaust and used by the family in the…
43. White wool tallit with black stripes brought with a German Jewish refugee
1990.223.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.223.1.3
Date:
received: approximately 1927
…Richard Pfifferling was born on December 31, 1914, in Lauterbach, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Alexander and Auguste Reiss Pfifferling. He had two…
44. 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…
45. Desecrated Torah fragment used as wrapping
1992.183.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.183.9
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.…
46. 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
…Hermeskeil (Germany)…
47. Single head tefillin
Object | Accession Number: 2012.244.6
Date:
emigration: 1940
…Annemarie Alexander was born on August 3, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Isadore and Anna Hirschensohn Alexander, who was born in 1890. Isadore, born…
48. 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
… Grunbaum, who was born November 20, 1903, in Frankfurt, Germany. Her paren married in 1936. Her mother was trained as a social worker and the couple operated…
49. White satin yarmulke owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.10
Date:
use: after 1938
…Peter Max Victor was born in Munich, Germany, on April 19, 1920, the only child of Carl Nathan and Elsa Alexander Victor. Carl was born in Gusten on…
50. Parokhet
1990.41.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.4
…The collection consists of artifacts and posters related to the history of Jewish culture in Germany and artifacts and antisemitic propaganda posters…
51. White silk tallit with black stripes brought with a German Jewish refugee
1990.223.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.223.1.4
Date:
received: approximately 1927
…Richard Pfifferling was born on December 31, 1914, in Lauterbach, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Alexander and Auguste Reiss Pfifferling. He had two…
52. Blue velvet tefillin pouch found in a shallow grave by a Jewish American soldier
1988.118.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.118.1 a
Date:
found: after 1945 April 22-before 1945 May
… school. He worked at an Austrian paper export company. On March 12, 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria. Walter and his family had their citizenship…
53. Damaged Torah scroll used as kindling
Object | Accession Number: 1990.119.1
Date:
use: 1938 November
…Bad Durkheim (Germany)…
54. 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
…Bernhard Groeschel was born in Forchheim, Germany, on March 12, 1878, to Phillipp and Adelheid Rosenbaum Groeschel. Bernhard had a brother, Gustav…
55. Shofar saved by a German Jewish refugee
1993.22.2.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.22.2.1
Date:
emigration: 1938
…Hermeskeil (Germany)…
56. Circumcision knife with inscription and agate handle with wooden case used by a mohel
1992.8.27_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.27 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
… a shochet and Isaac attended Yeshiva in Russia. He resettled in Germany, first in Frankfurt am Main, then in Berlin. He married Frieda Schwartzbardt…
57. Megillat, Book of Esther, scroll handwritten by a sofer for Isaac Ossowski
1992.8.25 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.25
Date:
use: 1910-1938
emigration: 1938
Title:
Megillat Ester
… a shochet and Isaac attended Yeshiva in Russia. He resettled in Germany, first in Frankfurt am Main, then in Berlin. He married Frieda Schwartzbardt…
58. Handpainted linen Torah binder made for a German Jewish boy
1992.8.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.1
Date:
creation: 1919 January
commemoration: 1919 January-1919 January
emigration: 1938-1938
… a shochet and Isaac attended Yeshiva in Russia. He resettled in Germany, first in Frankfurt am Main, then in Berlin. He married Frieda Schwartzbardt…
59. 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…
60. Silk matzah holder with a handpainted fruit and floral design for Passover created by a Jewish Polish refugee in Bergen-Belsen DP camp
2012.443.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.443.2
Date:
creation: 1948
… September 10, but on September 1, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany. When the war began, the Polish government called for all able bodied men to report for…