Overview
- Brief Narrative
- 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.
- Date
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use:
1938 November
- Geography
-
use:
Bad Durkheim (Germany)
received: Palatinate (Germany)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joachim Hahn
Physical Details
- Language
- 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)
- Physical Description
- Parchment with burn marks and singed edges. It is fragile and warped.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 29.125 inches (73.978 cm) | Width: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm)
- Materials
- overall : parchment, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The torah scroll was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Joachim Hahn.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-05-26 09:03:24
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn2563
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
