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1. Mezuzah pendant
2004.614.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.614.4
… their spouses and children at the Treblinka extermination camp. While Joshua lost all his siblings, nieces, and nephews in Europe, his brother Leon…
2. Blue velvet bimah cover desecrated during Kristallnacht
Object | Accession Number: 2006.496.2
Date:
received: 1945-1947
use: 1938 November 09
… married Helmut Marx, a survivor of Theresienstadt and Treblinka concentration camps, on January 28, 1950. They had five children. Her mother, Johanna Simons…
3. Mezuzah pendant with attached string
2004.614.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.614.3
… their spouses and children at the Treblinka extermination camp. While Joshua lost all his siblings, nieces, and nephews in Europe, his brother Leon…
4. Hand tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.3
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
… husband had been sent to Treblinka and killed. The family moved to Łódź and opened a leather store. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7. After…
5. 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
… husband had been sent to Treblinka and killed. The family moved to Łódź and opened a leather store. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7. After…
6. 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
… husband had been sent to Treblinka and killed. The family moved to Łódź and opened a leather store. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7. After…
7. 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
… husband had been sent to Treblinka and killed. The family moved to Łódź and opened a leather store. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7. After…
8. 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
… Treblinka killing center, and hundreds of others were shot, burned, and buried in mass graves. Only Jews with work cards were spared. Max’s sister, Sara, was…
9. Leather tallit pouch made by an inmate in a Dutch detention center
2012.485.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.485.11
Date:
creation: after 1939 September
…. On September 19, 1942, they were deported on transport Bo to Treblinka or Maly Trostenets killing center, and murdered. Fred’s mother Selma survived in…