Overview
- Brief Narrative
- A Jewish prayer shawl owned by a victim of the Holocaust and kept by a friend as a remembrance. When the Nazis came to deport him, the owner of the talit gave it to his best friend, Ignatz Kohn, "until he'll come back." The man never returned and Ignatz kept it until 1954 when he gave it to Regina Schwarz to keep in remembrance of unknown Jews..
- Date
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received:
approximately 1939
- Geography
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received:
Vienna (Austria)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Regina Schwarz de Hassan
- Contributor
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Subject:
Ignatz Kohn
Physical Details
- Classification
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Jewish Art and Symbolism
- Category
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Jewish ceremonial objects
- Object Type
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Tallitot (Jewish liturgical objects) (lcsh)
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The tallit was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Regina de Hassan.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-08-22 14:49:34
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn2940
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Also in Ignatz Kohn collection
The collection consists of a tallit and 3 pieces of Theresienstadt scrip.
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note
Object
Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note
Object
Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note
Object
Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.
