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21. Pair of tefillin with batim covers saved with a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
2002.140.9 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.9 a-d
Date:
use: before 1942
…, but the Van Pelts called her Meiske, the Dutch word for girly. They said she was their niece who had survived the bombings. They lived near a large…
22. Purple velvet tallit pouch made by a woman for her fiance in a DP camp
1999.7.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.7.11
Date:
creation: approximately 1946 January
use: after 1946 January 27-before 1992
… displaced persons camp established near the former concentration camp. He learned that five of his siblings had survived the war. They eventually emigrated to…
23. Grave marker from the Łódź ghetto
2008.88.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.88.1
Date:
commemoration: 1940 August 04
… Auschwitz death camp in 1943. Chaim and his brother were also deported to Auschwitz, but they both survived, though most of their other relatives perished…
24. 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
… very victorious that I survived intact. I cherish life. Never take for granted a day.” The Holocaust is not just a historical event, she said. “Make…
25. Set of tefillin kept by a Polish Jewish man through the war
Object | Accession Number: 2014.197.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1941-1945
… survived. Circa July 1944, Baruch and Sarah left the woods and went to Rozniatow. They were temporarily hidden in a barn by one of Baruch’s friends, then had…
26. White satin yarmulke owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.10
Date:
use: after 1938
…, Rebecca Adler, survived the war in Berlin; her husband, who was not Jewish, had been able to save her, but both their sons were killed by the Nazis. For two…
27. Blue striped tallit with an embroidered neckband owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.16
Date:
received: after 1948
…, Rebecca Adler, survived the war in Berlin; her husband, who was not Jewish, had been able to save her, but both their sons were killed by the Nazis. For two…
28. Black yarmulke used by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.5
Date:
use: after 1938
…, Rebecca Adler, survived the war in Berlin; her husband, who was not Jewish, had been able to save her, but both their sons were killed by the Nazis. For two…
29. White satin yarmulke with a button owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.11
Date:
use: after 1938
…, Rebecca Adler, survived the war in Berlin; her husband, who was not Jewish, had been able to save her, but both their sons were killed by the Nazis. For two…
30. Black yarmulke used by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.6
Date:
use: after 1938
…, Rebecca Adler, survived the war in Berlin; her husband, who was not Jewish, had been able to save her, but both their sons were killed by the Nazis. For two…