Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Encased Jewish calender printed by the Jewish Council in Łódź [Litzmannstadt] during the Holocaust.
- Date
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publication/distribution:
1944
- Geography
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publication:
Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland);
Łódź (Poland)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Bert and Irene Fleming
Physical Details
- Classification
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Information Forms
- Category
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Calendars
- Object Type
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Jewish devotional calendars (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- .1=calendar, .2=sleeve; printed and bound in booklet format, read from left to right; each page one week; beginning and end of Shabbat noted on Friday and Saturday of each week; photograph of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski featured on first page; cover bears printed inscriptions in black ink in German and Hebrew lettering, German reads, "Der Aelteste der Juden/in Litzmannstadt/Kalender/FUER DAS JAHR/1944"
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 3.740 inches (9.5 cm) | Width: 2.200 inches (5.588 cm) | Depth: 5.590 inches (14.199 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink, graphite, cloth, metal
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The calendar was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Bernard Fleming.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-09-19 11:40:37
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn11294
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