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1. Embroidered yarmulke brought to the United States by Nisson Bespaloff or a family member
Object | Accession Number: 2017.694.2
Date:
use: 1901-1946
…Embroidered yarmulke brought to the United States by Nisson Bespaloff or a family member…
2. Embroidered pouch for tefillin brought to the United States by Nisson Bespaloff or a family member
Object | Accession Number: 2017.694.3
Date:
use: 1901-1946
…Embroidered pouch for tefillin brought to the United States by Nisson Bespaloff or a family member…
3. Pair of small tefillin brought to the United States by Nisson Bespaloff or a family member
Object | Accession Number: 2017.694.5 a-b
Date:
use: 1901-1946
…Pair of small tefillin brought to the United States by Nisson Bespaloff or a family member…
4. Embroidered pouch for a tallit brought to the United States by Nisson Bespaloff or a family member
Object | Accession Number: 2017.694.4
Date:
use: 1901-1946
…Embroidered pouch for a tallit brought to the United States by Nisson Bespaloff or a family member…
5. 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
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gusti Ackermann…
6. Burgundy velvet shofar cover with a floral border and tassels saved by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1993.22.2.2
Date:
emigration: 1938
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gusti Ackermann…
7. Shofar saved by a German Jewish refugee
1993.22.2.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.22.2.1
Date:
emigration: 1938
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gusti Ackermann…
8. Torah binder with his name and birthdate saved by a young German Jewish refugee
1993.22.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.22.3
Date:
commemoration: 1924 July 27
creation: 1924
emigration: 1937 June
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gusti Ackermann…
9. Pink cloth Torah scroll cover saved by a refugee from Nazi Germany
1993.85.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.85.1 b
Date:
creation: 1934
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Freddy Rotenberg…
10. Tallit owned by Manfred Lewinnek
Object | Accession Number: 2021.261.11
…, Poland). Manfred had one brother, Isidor Lewinnek (later John). He primarily grew up in Stuttgart, Germany. Manfred immigrated to the United States in…
11. Tallit owned by Manfred Lewinnek
Object | Accession Number: 2021.261.10
…, Poland). Manfred had one brother, Isidor Lewinnek (later John). He primarily grew up in Stuttgart, Germany. Manfred immigrated to the United States in…
12. Embroidered brown velvet tallit pouch used by a Jewish immigrant
Object | Accession Number: 2012.72.10
Date:
emigration: 1908
… (Edward), was born in the fall of 1907. The next year, Samuel immigrated to the United States, sailing from Hamburg, Germany, and arriving in New York on…
13. Embroidered black velvet tefillin pouch owned by a Jewish immigrant
Object | Accession Number: 2012.72.9
Date:
emigration: 1908
creation: 1897
… (Edward), was born in the fall of 1907. The next year, Samuel immigrated to the United States, sailing from Hamburg, Germany, and arriving in New York on…
14. Candelabrum fragments from a synagogue destroyed during Kristallnacht
2000.507.1 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.507.1 a-b
Date:
found: after 1938 November 09
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Henry Freund, dedicated to the memory of his mother Gabriele, a victim of the Nazi…
15. Black yarmulke owned by Milton Emont and likely used during World War II
2018.565.3 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.565.3
Date:
use: approximately 1943-approximately 1946
… Institute of Phonetique, in France. After the war, he returned briefly to the United States and was discharged from the Army on April 16, 1946. He then…
16. Hand painted Torah binder brought with German Jewish refugee family
2016.404.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.404.2
Date:
commemoration: 1935
use: 2012
…, Friedrich traveled alone to the United States, while Betty took the children to her family in Worms. Friedrich initially stayed in New York City with his…
17. 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
… revoked because they were Jewish. They decided to emigrate to the United States. Walter’s paternal uncle Ludwig, now called Louis, had emigrated to New York…
18. 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
…, 1945. Shanghai was liberated by the United States Army on September 3, 1945. Peter worked as a dispatcher and driver for the US Army Air Force motor pool…
19. Tefillin set with an extra strap used by a Jewish immigrant
2012.72.11 a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.72.11 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1908
… (Edward), was born in the fall of 1907. The next year, Samuel immigrated to the United States, sailing from Hamburg, Germany, and arriving in New York on…
20. 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
… displaced persons camps, Chaim married and emigrated to the United States in 1948.…