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1. Blue striped tallit with embroidered Hebrew text used by a Czech Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.4
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
… 1941, he earned a scholarship to attend an agricultural high school in Denmark. Through these early years of the war, Frank received weekly letters from…
2. Pair of tefillin with an embroidered green velvet bag used by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.147.2_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.2 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
… 1941, he earned a scholarship to attend an agricultural high school in Denmark. Through these early years of the war, Frank received weekly letters from…
3. Torah binder with his name and birthdate saved by a young German Jewish refugee
1993.22.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.22.3
Date:
commemoration: 1924 July 27
creation: 1924
emigration: 1937 June
…World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--United States.…
4. Circumcision knife with a glass and metal handle with a black wooden case used by a mohel
1992.8.30_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.30 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
…World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--United States.…
5. Green velvet Torah mantle with 10 Commandments found by a US soldier
1989.291.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.291.1
Date:
creation: 1905
found: approximately 1944 November-approximately 1945 January
… United States entered the war. Herman enlisted in the US Army on August 22, 1942. He was a private in the Warrant Officers Branch when he deployed to…
6. Ritual circumcision set with 2 knives, a case, 2 shields, a suction tube, and scissors used by a mohel
1992.8.38_a closed
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.38 a-g
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
…World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--United States.…
7. Tsiyon [Zion] shaped stone Shabbat candleholder and base carved in a Cyprus detention camp
2006.478.1_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.478.1 a-b
Date:
creation: 1948
… allowed to sign in and out of camp each day for work. When Germany declared war on the Soviet Union in spring 1941, Polish citizens were set free in order…
8. Megillat, Book of Esther, scroll handwritten by a sofer for Isaac Ossowski
1992.8.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.23
Date:
use: 1910-1943
emigration: 1938
Title:
Megillat Ester
…World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--United States.…
9. Candelabrum fragments from a synagogue destroyed during Kristallnacht
2000.507.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.507.1 a-b
Date:
found: after 1938 November 09
…World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--United States.…
10. Pair of Sabbath candlesticks with wax reservoirs owned by a Jewish refugee
1992.8.28 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.28 a-d
Date:
use: approximately 1910-1938
emigration: 1938
…World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--United States.…
11. Tefillin and green velvet pouch used by a Polish Jewish survivor
2006.285.4_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.285.4 a-c
Date:
use: 1939-1945
… sugar. Soon after the war began on September 1, 1939, the family attempted to relocate to Warsaw as it was supposed to be a safer place for Jews to live…
12. Ritual slaughter instrument set: 3 knives, 3 cases, 2 whetstones, a bag, a band, and 4 cloths used by a shochet
1992.8.39_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.39 a-n
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
…World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--United States.…
13. Desecrated, broken tombstone with carved hands symbol from Turek Jewish cemetery
Object | Accession Number: 1990.292.3
Date:
creation: approximately 1850-1899
recovered: 1989
use: after 1939 September
… Reich. By the early 1940s, it controlled over a million workers, slave laborers, war prisoners, and camp inmates.…
14. White satin yarmulke owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.10
Date:
use: after 1938
… (1882-1958), and had two sons. Elsa was born on December 25, 1888. Carl served in the Germany Army during World War I (1914-1918.) Carl was a poet and…
15. Embroidered purple tallit bag used by two Hungarian rabbis
1990.245.6_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.6 a
Date:
received: 1923 December 06
use: 1923 December 06-1952 March 29
… the war effort. When Simon’s granddaughter, Eva, graduated high school in 1942, most Jews were prohibited from attending university. While a connection…
16. Handpainted linen Torah binder made for a German Jewish boy
1992.8.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.1
Date:
creation: 1919 January
commemoration: 1919 January-1919 January
emigration: 1938-1938
…World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--United States.…
17. Green striped sateen tefillin pouch hidden and recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish family
2004.446.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.446.3
Date:
use: before 1944 December 14
recovered: after 1945 March
… liberated the area. Aurelia recovered the tefillin and returned to Nitra. After the war ended in May 1945, Alfred rejoined them in Nitra. He had been deported…
18. 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
… camp that they “would be taken to the woods and shot. There was no question the war was ending and with it, probably, our lives.” The camp was suddenly…
19. 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
… saved. Beatrice had always felt that her parents abandoned her, and she had kept a diary during the war, but now she could understand her history more…
20. 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
… center of Hasidism and had a majority Jewish population. Herman worked as a locksmith and a farmer, and before the war, he was a soldier in Krakow. In…