Damaged Torah scroll used as kindling
Object | Accession Number: 1990.119.1
- Date
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use:
1938 November
- Geography
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use:
Bad Durkheim (Germany)
received: Palatinate (Germany)
- Language
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Hebrew
- Classification
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Jewish Art and Symbolism
- Category
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Jewish ceremonial objects
- Object Type
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Torah scrolls (lcsh)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joachim Hahn
Torah scroll that was used as kindling during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, near Bad Duerkheim, Germany. It was received by a pastor from a man with whom he was visiting. The pastor noticed that the man was starting a fire in his fireplace with fragments of a torah roll and asked to have it. The pastor later gave the scroll to Dr. Joachim Hahn. It is unknown what town the roll came from originally.
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Record last modified: 2023-05-26 09:03:24
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Also in Joachim Hahn collection
The collection consists of a Torah scroll and publications relating to the cultural history of Jews in Nazi Germany.
Date: approximately 1938
