Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Jewish prayer book (siddurim) owned by a prisoner of the Gurs concentration camp in France.
- Title
- Siddur
- Date
-
publication:
1940
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Arthur Mendel
Physical Details
- Classification
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Books and Published Materials
- Category
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Books and pamphlets
- Object Type
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Prayer books (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- paper-bound (hard) book with black cover, held together with three strips of adhesive tape; inside covers and fly papers bear inscriptions in ink and pencil (mostly illegible)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink, graphite, adhesive, plastic
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Arthur Mendel.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-09-19 10:01:26
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn11838
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The collection consists of Jewish prayer books owned by a prisoner at Gurs concentration camp in France.
Date: 1940-1943
Prayer book
Object
Jewish prayer book (siddurim) given to prisoner of Gurs Concentration Camp by French nuns.
Book
Object
Prayer book
Object
Jewish prayer book (siddurim) which belonged to a prisoner of the Gurs concentration camp in France.
