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1. 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
…), and Isik (c. 1932-1944), and attended a public primary school for eight years. In 1938 and 1939, Germany, Hungary, and Poland annexed territory from…
2. Tallis with bag given to a Czechoslovakian Jewish man by a U.S. Army chaplain
2018.297.4 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.297.4 a-b
Date:
received: after 1946 May-before 1947 December
…), and Isik (c. 1932-1944), and attended a public primary school for eight years. In 1938 and 1939, Germany, Hungary, and Poland annexed territory from…
3. 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
…Sara Kupinski (later Cohen, 1932- ?) was born in Vilna (Wilno), Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) to Eliasz (Eli, 1897-?) and Slawa (1902…
4. Metal mezuzah found postwar and used by a Polish Jewish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1993.11.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945 January
use: 1945-approximately 1980
…Israel Yitzhak Miedzyrzecki was born on February 13, 1892, in Warsaw, Poland, to Berisch and Feiga Halberstadt Miedzyrzecki. He had 8 siblings and a…
5. 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
…Donald Harry Hirschberg (later Harter, 1933-2019) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), to Harry Morton (1899-1957) and Lenore Evelyne…
6. 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
…Turek (Poland)…
7. Embroidered floral chuppah used by Polish Jewish survivors
Object | Accession Number: 2019.610.2
Date:
use: after 1945 May
…Łódź (Poland)…
8. Ner Tamid [Eternal light] lamp donated to the Gilgenberg synagogue by Joseph Marcus
Object | Accession Number: 2021.189.1
Date:
commemoration: 1913 August 19
use: 1913 August 19-1937
…Dąbrówno (Województwo Warmińsko-Mazurskie, Poland)…
9. Grave marker from the Łódź ghetto
2008.88.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.88.1
Date:
commemoration: 1940 August 04
…Chaim Kozienicki was born June 16, 1928 in Łódź, Poland, to Chaja Sura, born in 1900, and Szulem, born 1889. He had one brother, Ezra Zeli, born…
10. 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
…Zofia Jedrusiak lived in Lublin, Poland. She was married to Michal who was a building superintendent. She had a daughter, who married Feliks…
11. Metallic pink and yellow tallit atarah brought with a Polish Jewish emigre
2009.117.25 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.117.25
Date:
emigration: 1939
creation: 1939
… lived in Olomuac and then settled in his hometown, Stanislawow, Poland (now Sasiv, Ukraine). Benedykt's father owned a yeast and alcohol factory there…
12. 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
…Turek (Poland)…
13. Metallic yellow and silver tallit atarah brought with a Polish Jewish emigre
2009.117.26 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.117.26
Date:
emigration: 1939
creation: 1939
… lived in Olomuac and then settled in his hometown, Stanislawow, Poland (now Sasiv, Ukraine). Benedykt's father owned a yeast and alcohol factory there…
14. Pair of tefillin and pouch owned by a Polish Jewish immigrant
2016.280.1_a-b 3/4 view closed
Object | Accession Number: 2016.280.1 a-f
Date:
use: before 1983
…Max Zuckerman (1904-1983) was born to Chaim Wolfe (?-1942) and Dvora (?-1942) Cukerman in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland, south of Radom. He had…
15. 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
…Turek (Poland)…
16. Handmade floral whitework matzoh cover recovered by a Polish Jewish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 2012.480.2
Date:
recovered: 1945
…Ajzyk Celnik (1900-1964) was born in Sieradz, Poland. His parents may have been Mosche and Perl Celnik. Ajzyk moved to Kalisz as a young man and…
17. 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
…Moniek Rozen (1922-2020) was born November 10, 1922, in Czestochowa, Poland, but grew up in Dabrowa Gornicza, an industrial town in the western…
18. Metallic silver pinwheel tallit decoration brought with a Polish Jewish emigre
2009.117.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.117.24
Date:
emigration: 1939
creation: 1939
… lived in Olomuac and then settled in his hometown, Stanislawow, Poland (now Sasiv, Ukraine). Benedykt's father owned a yeast and alcohol factory there…
19. Head tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.2
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
…Israel Yitzhak Miedzyrzecki was born on February 13, 1892, in Warsaw, Poland, to Berisch and Feiga Halberstadt Miedzyrzecki. He had 8 siblings and a…
20. Metallic brown tallit atarah brought with a Polish Jewish emigre
2009.117.27 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.117.27
Date:
emigration: 1939
creation: 1939
… lived in Olomuac and then settled in his hometown, Stanislawow, Poland (now Sasiv, Ukraine). Benedykt's father owned a yeast and alcohol factory there…