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1. 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
…Pair of tefillin taken from a concentration camp by an inmate at liberation…
2. 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
…Tefillin set found on the body of a concentration camp inmate by a Jewish American soldier…
3. 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
… Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, and killed on December 7, 1942. Almost all of Abraham’s family was killed in Auschwitz: his sister Clara and her…
4. Ornament of the Ten Commandments tablets supported by two lions
2013.475.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.475.2
Date:
undated: 
… in Theresienstadt concentration camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia from 1943 until the camps liberation in May 1945.…
5. 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
… of the war in 1945, Jewish survivors were placed into hastily created displaced persons camps throughout Europe. Along with the United Nations Relief…
6. Purple velvet tallit pouch made by a woman for her fiance in a DP camp
1999.7.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1999.7.11
Date:
creation: approximately 1946 January
use: after 1946 January 27-before 1992
…, Germany occupied Hungary. The Hungarians now cooperated with the Germans in the systemic deportation of all Jews in Hungary to concentration camps. The…
7. 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
… arrived at Auschwitz concentration camp, Sala noticed that nearly all of the 2500 passengers were being sent to one side; she told her sister to join the…
8. 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
… Belgium. They were soon loaded onto transport XX for Auschwitz concentration camp. They were part of an escape attempt planned by the Belgium resistance…
9. 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
… Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, and killed on December 7, 1942. Almost all of Abraham’s family was killed in Auschwitz: his sister Clara and her…
10. 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
… February 15, 1945, Bernat was deported to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, where he was liberated by American forces on May 5. After liberation…