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1. Tallit
1996.86.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.86.1
2. 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
3. Embroidered pink silk challah cover buried for safekeeping while the owner was in hiding
2010.487.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.487.2
Date:
recovered: approximately 1945 May
4. 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
5. Torah scroll torn into four pieces from a desecrated synagogue
Object | Accession Number: 1996.1.1 a-d
Date:
found: 1938 November 09-1938 November 10
6. Green velvet Torah mantle with 10 Commandments found by a US soldier
1989.291.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.291.1
Date:
creation: 1905
found: approximately 1944 November-approximately 1945 January
7. Brass Hanukiah carried by a German Jewish family who immigrated to Ecuador
2016.461.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.461.2 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1937
8. Handmade lace challah cover with a Hebrew inscription owned by Gertrude Straus
1989.154.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.154.1
Date:
1801-1900
9. Mizrach, a sign designating the direction of Jerusalem, with a personal inscription created by a sofer
1992.8.36 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.36
Date:
creation: 1928-1929
emigration: 1938
Artwork Title:
Mizrach for my Wife
10. Single hand tefillin
Object | Accession Number: 2012.244.5
Date:
emigration: 1940
11. Silver, engraved kiddush cup used by German Jewish refugees in Shanghai
2002.250.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.250.3
12. Embroidered yarmulke brought to the United States by Nisson Bespaloff or a family member
Object | Accession Number: 2017.694.2
Date:
use: 1901-1946
13. 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
14. Torah scroll fragment from Poland
2002.430.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.430.1
15. Desecrated tombstone in 2 sections with carved scrollwork from Turek Jewish cemetery
Object | Accession Number: 1990.292.8 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1850-1899
recovered: 1989
use: after 1939 September
16. Calligraphy of a graveside Kaddish created by a sofer [scribe]
1992.8.35 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.35
Date:
creation: approximately 1930-1933
emigration: 1938
Artwork Title:
Kaddish
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. Desecrated, broken tombstone with carved candelabra from Turek Jewish cemetery
Object | Accession Number: 1990.292.5
Date:
creation: approximately 1850-1899
recovered: 1989
use: after 1939 September
21. Kiddush cup engraved with a Hebrew prayer owned by a Romanian Jewish family
2017.356.1 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 2017.356.1
Date:
use: before 1944 May
22. 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
23. Tallit
2019.131.3 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2019.131.3
24. White kittel used by Rabbi Ferenc Hevesi on High Holidays
1990.245.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.14 a-b
Date:
use: 1922-1952
25. Odessa tombstone
Object | Accession Number: 2016.562.1
26. Tefillin bag
Object | Accession Number: 2012.244.7
Date:
emigration: 1940
27. Tefillin set found on the body of a concentration camp inmate by a Jewish American soldier
1988.118.1 b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.118.1 g-l
Date:
found: after 1945 April 22-before 1945 May
28. 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
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
30. Silver kiddush cup with scenes of Lublin entrusted to a Gentile neighbor
2003.41.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.41.1
Date:
creation: approximately 1873
received: 1941
31. Tallit katan
2000.502.197 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.502.197
32. Floral silk brocade tallit pouch saved with a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
2002.140.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.6
Date:
use: before 1942
33. Megillah (Book of Esther) from the former Zülz synagogue brought to the US by German Jewish refugees
Object | Accession Number: 2004.482.1
Date:
use: before 1939
Title:
Book of Esther
34. Ritual slaughter knife with a wooden case used by a shochet
1992.8.33_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.33 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
35. Torah scroll with cover and box
2017.242.6 a-d closed
Object | Accession Number: 2017.242.6 a-d
Date:
use: approximately 1944
36. Torah
Object | Accession Number: 1990.96.1
Title:
Torah scroll
37. Hanukkah menorah with rearing lions used by a Polish German survivor
2014.557.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.2
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1933
38. 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
39. 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
40. Tallit belonging to the Kampf family
Object | Accession Number: 2022.40.3 a-b
41. Tefillin set hidden and recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish family
2004.446.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.446.2 a-b
Date:
use: before 1944 December 14
recovered: after 1945 March
42. Hammered silver kiddush cup
1992.123.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.123.7
43. Star Shaped Applique
2017.586.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.586.16
44. Tallit
1990.117.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.117.1
Date:
manufacture: 1930-1934
45. Set of tefillin found postwar by a young Polish Jewish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.3 b-c
Date:
found: 1945
46. Desecrated, broken tombstone with carved Torah scroll from Turek Jewish cemetery
Object | Accession Number: 1990.292.6
Date:
creation: approximately 1850-1899
recovered: 1989
use: after 1939 September
47. 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
48. 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
49. 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
50. Tefillin hidden by a Belgian Jew while an inmate in seven concentration camps
1994.29.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.29.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945