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1. Amulet pendant
Object | Accession Number: 2019.81.8
2. Atarah with a gold metallic thread floral pattern owned by a prewar German Jewish emigre to the US
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.5
Date:
emigration: 1934 July
3. Bimah cover
Object | Accession Number: 2017.666.1
4. 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
5. Black velvet embroidered tefillin bag buried for safekeeping while owner in hiding
2007.471.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.471.2
Date:
use: before 1932
recovered: after 1944 December
6. 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
7. 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
8. Black yarmulke used by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.5
Date:
use: after 1938
9. Black yarmulke used by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.6
Date:
use: after 1938
10. Black yarmulke worn by a Hungarian rabbi
1990.245.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.8
Date:
use: before 1943
received: approximately 1939
11. 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
12. Blue striped tallit with embroidered Hebrew text used by a Czech Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.4
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
13. Blue velvet bimah cover desecrated during Kristallnacht
Object | Accession Number: 2006.496.2
Date:
received: 1945-1947
use: 1938 November 09
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. Brass Hanukkah menorah with fish shaped feet used by a Jewish refugee family
1992.8.32 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.32
Date:
use: 1910-1938
emigration: 1938
18. 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
19. Broken pink gravestone with a Ladino inscription from a desecrated Jewish cemetery recovered postwar
Object | Accession Number: 2005.609.1
Date:
creation: approximately 1715-before 1864
20. Broken tombstone with a willow tree from a desecrated Jewish cemetery recovered postwar
Object | Accession Number: 2005.609.2
Date:
creation: approximately 1715-before 1864
21. Brown cloth Torah mantle with a Star of David applique
1990.41.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.20
Date:
recovered: after 1945
22. Brown tefillin pouch used by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.1
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
23. 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
24. Burgundy velvet tefillin pouch saved with a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
2002.140.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.11
Date:
use: before 1942
25. 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
26. Calligraphy of Sukkot prayers and a personal inscription created by a sofer
1992.8.37 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.37
Date:
creation: 1933-1934
emigration: 1938
Artwork Title:
Welcoming Sukkot
27. Candelabra used during Shabbat by Mina Drukman Deac's family
Object | Accession Number: 2018.673.1
Date:
use: after 1941 October
28. Candelabrum fragments from a synagogue destroyed during Kristallnacht
2000.507.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.507.1 a-b
Date:
found: after 1938 November 09
29. Castle-shaped Havdalah spice box (besamim) owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.5
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1850-approximately 1935
emigration: 1939-1949
30. 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
31. 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
32. Circumcision knife with a glass and metal handle with a black wooden case used by a mohel
1992.8.30_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.30 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
33. 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
34. Crocheted tallit katan saved with a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
2002.140.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.14
Date:
use: before 1942
35. Damaged Torah scroll from a synagogue in Marburg desecrated during Kristallnacht
Object | Accession Number: 1991.131.1 a-c
Date:
found: 1938 November 09-1938 November 10
36. Damaged Torah scroll used as kindling
Object | Accession Number: 1990.119.1
Date:
use: 1938 November
37. Dark red velvet square tefillin pouch saved with a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
2002.140.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.12
Date:
use: before 1942
38. Desecrated, broken tombstone with carved bookshelf from Turek Jewish cemetery
Object | Accession Number: 1990.292.7
Date:
creation: approximately 1850-1899
recovered: 1989
use: after 1939 September
39. 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
40. Desecrated, broken tombstone with carved crown from Turek Jewish cemetery
Object | Accession Number: 1990.292.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1850-1899
recovered: 1989
use: after 1939 September
41. Desecrated, broken tombstone with carved hands symbol from Turek Jewish cemetery
Object | Accession Number: 1990.292.3
Date:
creation: approximately 1850-1899
recovered: 1989
use: after 1939 September
42. 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
43. Desecrated section of a Torah scroll used as postal package wrapping
Object | Accession Number: 2010.104.1
Date:
use: 1941-1944
44. 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
45. Desecrated Torah fragment used as wrapping
1992.183.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.183.9
46. Desecrated Torah scroll fragment found in Poland
Object | Accession Number: 1992.1.23
47. Desecrated Torah scroll fragment found in Poland
Object | Accession Number: 1992.1.24
48. Desecrated Torah scroll recovered postwar by a Polish Jew
1991.227.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.227.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945
49. Electric Ner tamid [Eternal light] with a table mount issued by Yad Vashem
1992.8.34_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.34 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1939
use: approximately 1961
50. Embroidered black velvet tefillin pouch owned by a Jewish immigrant
Object | Accession Number: 2012.72.9
Date:
emigration: 1908
creation: 1897