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1. Tallit owned by a German Jewish man
Object | Accession Number: 2016.538.3
Date:
emigration: after 1937-1939 May
…Ilse Brilling (1927-2016) was born to Hedwig (nee, Finkenstein, 1891-1959) and Isidor (1895-1939) Brilling in Rastenburg, Germany (now Kętrzyn…
2. Brown cloth Torah mantle with a Star of David applique
1990.41.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.20
Date:
recovered: after 1945
…Germany…
3. Embroidered parokhet
1990.41.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.5
…The collection consists of artifacts and posters related to the history of Jewish culture in Germany and artifacts and antisemitic propaganda posters…
4. Parokhet
1990.41.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.4
…The collection consists of artifacts and posters related to the history of Jewish culture in Germany and artifacts and antisemitic propaganda posters…
5. Needlepoint matzoh cover with a Hebrew inscription, flowers and leaves
1990.41.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.2 a-b
…Germany…
6. Mezuzah with an embossed rising sun used by a prewar German Jewish emigre to the US
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.2
Date:
emigration: 1934 July
…Leo Nast was born on October 3, 1885, in Schulitz, Germany. He had a sister, Frederica, and the family was Jewish. He attended Heidelberg University…
7. Painted mezuzah used by a prewar German Jewish emigre to the US
Object | Accession Number: 2012.455.3
Date:
emigration: 1934 July
…Leo Nast was born on October 3, 1885, in Schulitz, Germany. He had a sister, Frederica, and the family was Jewish. He attended Heidelberg University…
8. 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
… schools. She and her sister also received music, dance, and drama lessons. In September 1939, after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the eastern…
9. Mezuzah in a copper metal case used by a Jewish refugee family
1992.8.26 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.26
Date:
use: 1910-1938
emigration: 1938
… a shochet and Isaac attended Yeshiva in Russia. He resettled in Germany, first in Frankfurt am Main, then in Berlin. He married Frieda Schwartzbardt…
10. Desecrated Torah fragment used as wrapping
1992.183.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.183.9
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.…
11. Pair of Tefillin and pouch owned by a Romanian Jewish concentration camp survivor
2006.516.4 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2006.516.4 a-c
Date:
use: before 1944 May
recovered: 1946
… learned several languages, including Hebrew, Romanian, Hungarian, French, and German. In the late 1930s, Hungary made an alliance with Nazi Germany that…
12. Pair of Tefillin and pouch owned by a Romanian Jewish concentration camp survivor
2006.516.5 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2006.516.5 a-c
Date:
use: before 1944 May
recovered: 1946
… learned several languages, including Hebrew, Romanian, Hungarian, French, and German. In the late 1930s, Hungary made an alliance with Nazi Germany that…
13. 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
… both France and Germany. In 1945, he was able to complete eight weeks of graduate coursework in French and French literature at the Sorbonne and…
14. 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
… a shochet and Isaac attended Yeshiva in Russia. He resettled in Germany, first in Frankfurt am Main, then in Berlin. He married Frieda Schwartzbardt…
15. 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
…Hermeskeil (Germany)…
16. 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
…Carl Nathan Victor was born in Gusten, Germany, on May 1, 1879, to Louis and Henrietta Pels Victor. Louis was born in Gusten on December 8, 1832, to…
17. Blue velvet bimah cover desecrated during Kristallnacht
Object | Accession Number: 2006.496.2
Date:
received: 1945-1947
use: 1938 November 09
…Hannelore (Hanna) Simons was born in Hamm, Germany, in 1928, to Felix, born June 6, 1898, and Johanna Schulhaus Simons, born September 21, 1896. They…
18. 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
…Bernhard Groeschel was born in Forchheim, Germany, on March 12, 1878, to Phillipp and Adelheid Rosenbaum Groeschel. Bernhard had a brother, Gustav…
19. Tefillin storage pouch buried for safekeeping and recovered postwar
2004.333.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.333.2
Date:
recovered: approximately 1945 May
…Josef Joel Zamojre was born on June 28, 1921, in Greiz, Germany, to Marcus and Elinor Wiesenthal Zamojre. Marcus was born on August 16, 1893, in…
20. Monogrammed tallit pouch brought with a German Jewish refugee
1990.223.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.223.1.1
Date:
received: approximately 1927
…Richard Pfifferling was born on December 31, 1914, in Lauterbach, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Alexander and Auguste Reiss Pfifferling. He had two…