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51. Tombstone fragment recovered from a destroyed Jewish cemetery by a Holocaust survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1993.3.1
Date:
undated: 
recovered: 1992 May 27
… experience was to be more humane. He believed that he had survived to "pay back in some measure the good things people did for me." He died, 100, in September…
52. 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
…, 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…
53. Striped silk tallit worn by a Hungarian rabbi
1990.245.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.10
Date:
use: 1952
… Rottenstein, who had survived in a Jewish hospital. Erna was very ill, and died a short time later. Ferenc’s mother had been in the same sanatorium where he had…
54. 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
… about having to leave her behind. The last letter Norbert received from his family was dated May 1941. Norbert survived many air raids and had to put out…
55. Set of tefillin found postwar by a young Polish Jewish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.3 b-c
Date:
found: 1945
… were among only 29 who had survived. That fall, Moshe went to the priest and managed to retrieve his youngest son. A party was held on October 20 to…
56. 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
… jeep with his Jewish chaplain's insignia, and a crowd soon gathered. Most had survived the war in hiding and he was the survivors' first contact with the…
57. Medallion with Moses and the S'hma prayer found by a young Jewish woman on a camp transport
2009.359.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.359.3
Date:
found: 1943-1945
… family, had survived. The officials in Breslau wanted to put Nina in an orphan’s home, but she convinced them that she was eighteen. In June 1945, Nina…
58. Red brushed velvet tefillin pouch with a Star of David found in postwar Berlin
1992.169.3_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.3 a
Date:
found: 1945
… were among only 29 who had survived. That fall, Moshe went to the priest and managed to retrieve his youngest son. A party was held on October 20 to…
59. Tefillin pair kept through the war by a Jewish Polish man
2003.418.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.418.2 a-b
Date:
received: approximately 1930
… they reached Poland. Michael agreed, but he and Ella chose to remain together. Michael could find no surviving family members. His parents Aron and…
60. Tefillin pair and embroidered pouch brought with a German Jewish refugee
1990.223.1.2._a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.223.1.2 a-c
Date:
received: approximately 1927
… Max survived and emigrated to New York in 1946. Hanna married Mr. Lewin and had children. Ruth’s husband Richard, 50, died on February 8, 1965. On…