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1. 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
… them from the rest of the population and the town’s economic life. In March, 1941, Herman was transported from Sosnowitz to Auschwitz concentration camp…
2. Set of tefillin owned by a Hungarian Jewish concentration camp survivor
2004.611.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.611.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1949
… Auschwitz-Monowitz as well as Hungarian soldiers. In 1943, Gizella, age 64, passed away of natural causes. In November, Adolf was ordered to forced labor…
3. Grave marker from the Łódź ghetto
2008.88.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.88.1
Date:
commemoration: 1940 August 04
…’s father had been deported that day. Chaim was deported soon after. He arrived at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp (Auschwitz II) on September 1…
4. Pair of tefillin taken from a concentration camp by an inmate at liberation
2000.580.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.580.1 a-b
Date:
found: 1945 January
…. Several thousand, including Moniek’s parents, were deported to Auschwitz. Jakub and Golda were killed upon arrival. In October, Moniek was deported to a…
5. 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
… Sophie returned to Amsterdam. Vera’s father Sal had been deported on December 8, 1942, to Auschwitz and died on February 28, 1943, in Auschwitz-Monowitz…
6. Tubular silver mezuzah saved with a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
2002.140.3 open
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.3
Date:
use: before 1942
… Sophie returned to Amsterdam. Vera’s father Sal had been deported on December 8, 1942, to Auschwitz and died on February 28, 1943, in Auschwitz-Monowitz…
7. White and black striped tallit saved with a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.13
Date:
use: before 1942
… Sophie returned to Amsterdam. Vera’s father Sal had been deported on December 8, 1942, to Auschwitz and died on February 28, 1943, in Auschwitz-Monowitz…
8. Purple striped cloth bag saved with hidden Dutch Jewish infant
2002.140.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.17
Date:
use: before 1942
… Sophie returned to Amsterdam. Vera’s father Sal had been deported on December 8, 1942, to Auschwitz and died on February 28, 1943, in Auschwitz-Monowitz…
9. 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
… Sophie returned to Amsterdam. Vera’s father Sal had been deported on December 8, 1942, to Auschwitz and died on February 28, 1943, in Auschwitz-Monowitz…
10. 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
… Sophie returned to Amsterdam. Vera’s father Sal had been deported on December 8, 1942, to Auschwitz and died on February 28, 1943, in Auschwitz-Monowitz…
11. Crocheted tallit katan saved with a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
2002.140.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.14
Date:
use: before 1942
… Sophie returned to Amsterdam. Vera’s father Sal had been deported on December 8, 1942, to Auschwitz and died on February 28, 1943, in Auschwitz-Monowitz…
12. Tallit bag
1993.142.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.142.1
Date:
creation: 1903
…Tallit bag made for Hugo Werber for his bar mitzvah, by Bertha Lieban, his aunt, who perished in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Hugo's mother…
13. Green velvet monogrammed tallit pouch buried for safekeeping while owner in hiding
2007.471.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.471.3
Date:
use: before 1932
recovered: after 1944 December
… returned to his family in Belgium. Walter was sent to Gurs internment camp in France and on August 6, 1942, was deported to Auschwitz, where he was killed…
14. Kippah buried for safekeeping while the owner lived in hiding
2007.471.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.471.1
Date:
use: before 1932
recovered: after 1944 December
… returned to his family in Belgium. Walter was sent to Gurs internment camp in France and on August 6, 1942, was deported to Auschwitz, where he was killed…
15. Set of tefillin buried for safekeeping while the owner lived in hiding
2007.471.5 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.471.5 a-b
Date:
use: before 1932
recovered: after 1944 December
… returned to his family in Belgium. Walter was sent to Gurs internment camp in France and on August 6, 1942, was deported to Auschwitz, where he was killed…
16. 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
… returned to his family in Belgium. Walter was sent to Gurs internment camp in France and on August 6, 1942, was deported to Auschwitz, where he was killed…
17. Tallit with dark blue stripes on each end buried for safekeeping
2007.471.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.471.4
Date:
use: before 1932
recovered: after 1944 December
… returned to his family in Belgium. Walter was sent to Gurs internment camp in France and on August 6, 1942, was deported to Auschwitz, where he was killed…
18. Pair of tefillin saved with a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
2002.140.10 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.10 a-b
Date:
use: before 1942
… Sophie returned to Amsterdam. Vera’s father Sal had been deported on December 8, 1942, to Auschwitz and died on February 28, 1943, in Auschwitz-Monowitz…
19. 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
… Sophie returned to Amsterdam. Vera’s father Sal had been deported on December 8, 1942, to Auschwitz and died on February 28, 1943, in Auschwitz-Monowitz…
20. Tefillin storage pouch buried for safekeeping and recovered postwar
2004.333.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.333.2
Date:
recovered: approximately 1945 May
…. In March 1944, they were discovered by the Germans and sent to Fossoli di Carpi transit camp. In April, they were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau…